SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Horatii, Jacques-Louis David, Romantic Realism
10 Feb 2015
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Some similarities between the enlightenment thinkers (reason and observation) with the romantic movement (feeling and intuition) Both tended to be: humanist concerned with nature attentive to the human consciousness classical culture was rich to explore rebelled against traditional oppressive structures celebrated individual human genius, human freedom. Romanticism: unitary organism, inspiration, inexhaustible drama of human life, individual self expression. Enlightenment: atomistic machine, reason, calm predictability of static abstractions, rational intellect, laws of nature individualism and personal freedom were common to both. Religion was either rejected or maintained the form of a rationalist deism. Romantic"s attitude rebellion against the hierarchies and institutions of traditional religion enduring element in the romantic spirit idealism, nature worship, religious existentialism, mother. Art took on a religious status, became the chief spiritual outlet and medium. Iv: movement assumed a religious and reactionary character, bonald and maistre developed the catholic counter-revolutionary philosophy.
