[Random House Publishing]
Kategoria: Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature
comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young
rebels poets, novelists, philosophers who, through their epic
quarrels, passionate...
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From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature
comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young
rebels poets, novelists, philosophers who, through their epic
quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical
ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of
the greatest thinkers of the time."Make[s] the reader feel as if
they were in the room with the great personalities of the age,
bearing witness to their insights and their vanities and rages.
Lauren Groff, New York Times best-selling author of MatrixWhen did
we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did
we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we
first ask the question, How can I be free? It all began in a quiet
university town in Germany in the 1790s, when a group of
playwrights, poets, and writers put the self at center stage in
their thinking, their writing, and their lives. This brilliant
circle included the famous poets Goethe, Schiller, and Novalis; the
visionary philosophers Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; the
contentious Schlegel brothers; and, in a wonderful cameo,
Alexander von Humboldt. And at the heart of this group was the
formidable Caroline Schlegel, who sparked their dazzling
conversations about the self, nature, identity, and freedom. The
French revolutionaries may have changed the political landscape of
Europe, but the young Romantics incited a revolution of the mind
that transformed our world forever. We are still empowered by their
daring leap into the self, and by their radical notions of the
creative potential of the individual, the highest aspirations of
art and science, the unity of nature, and the true meaning of
freedom. We also still walk the same tightrope between meaningful
self-fulfillment and destructive narcissism, between the rights of
the individual and our responsibilities toward our community and
future generations. At the heart of this inspiring book is the
extremely modern tension between the dangers of selfishness and the
thrilling possibilities of free will.
