HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Johann Gottfried Herder, Human Nature, Caspar David Friedrich
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Movement peaking in very late 18th century into the 19th century: romantic art, romantic music. Role of romanticism in modern history: second only to the enlightenment when it comes to a changing the outlook on the world. Romanticism has a wide variety of styles/politics/philosophies. Romanticism: a movement that arises out of the enlightenment but rebels against it. The enlightenment give rise to many new ideas, but romantics rebel against the ideas. Romantics thought the enlightenment"s view of: the world was absurd, human nature was cold, irrational and mean spirited, the world boring. Romantics proposed: a new form of knowledge: imagination, creativity, explored the notion of passion as a way of self-discovery, proposed a new individual. A solitary figure, a rebel, a heroin in the reform of the world. Troubled by the world around him or her. Romantics live their philosophy that they coherently are able to describe it.
