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The Romantic Enlightenment (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Romantic Enlightenment (Hardcover, New edition)
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While this treatment of the Romantic Enlightenment, limited by the
author to the years 1750-1920, can be read with profit by itself,
it depends for maximum intelligibility upon the concurrent reading
of many other books, and even the hearing of a few records. It
suggests a textbook for a college or seminary course, which anyone
interested in the subject could follow without resorting to
cloistered halls. When the Romantic Enlightenment turned its back
on a sterile classicism, and a rigid relationship between cultural
expression and the exploded Christian unity on which it formerly
hung, it passed through three phases. For the first eighty years
there was general rejoicing over the ambiguities of an emancipated
intelligence in rapport with free flowing emotion. During the next
forty years, emotion and intelligence drew further and further
apart, each seeming to flourish, but each beginning to miss its
supporting partner. The final forty year phase saw strangeness and
distortion pursued for their own sake as emotion and reflection
lost their hold on each other. Dr. Winkler traces the remarkable
influence and expression of this flourishing and ebbing of the
Romantic Enlightenment through the music and literature of the
160-year period, using Mozart, Bach, Hume, James, Dostoevsky and
others. Kirkegaard's thinking influences the whole book, including
its organization. Quite ambitious in the amount of material
covered, this book demands reader cooperation, with the reader's
hard work rewarding him with a real understanding of the basis of
much of our culture today. (Kirkus Reviews)
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