HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Immanence, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Enchanted Forest
20 Jun 2016
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Expression in art, music, poetry, drama, literature and philosophy. Arose both as implicit and explicit criticisms of 18th century enlightenment thought. The authors of the middle ages and the renaissance, such as dante, ariosto, shakespeare, who abandoned classical forms were seen as inventors of romanticism. Friedrich schlegel (1772-1829) defined romantische poesie as a progressive universal poesy" in 1798. Classicism focused on the past, not the future like romanticism. Prussia vs. austria competed for powers of the german lands. The revolution became in the romantic mind an allegory of disruption in time and the rise of chaos. Various cultural discourses, both complementary and oppositional, converged in early german. Romanticism, including pietism, the enlightenment, weimar classicism and sturm und drang (storm and. Logic, reason had dominated for the past eight decades. Principles of enlightenment: all genuine questions can be answered, all answers are knowable, all answers must be compatible with one another.
