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082			_a843.7 _bDUP
100			_aDupre, Louis
245			_aQuest of the absolute: birth and decline of european romanticism
260			_bUniversity of Notredame Press, _c2013 _aNotre Dame :
300			_ax,387 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b40.00 _c$ _d83.60
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis study brings to completion the author's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, this book analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. The author philosophically reflects on its attempts to recapture the past and transform the present in a movement that is partly a return to premodern culture and partly a violent protest against it. Following an introduction on the historical origins of the Romantic Movement, the author examines the principal Romantic poets of England (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats), Germany (Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Hölderlin), and France (Lamartine, de Vigny, Hugo), all of whom, from different perspectives, pursued an absolute ideal. In the chapters of the second part, the author concentrates on the critical principles of Romantic aesthetics, the Romantic image of the person as reflected in the novel, and Romantic ethical and political theories. In the chapters of the third, more speculative, part, he investigates the comprehensive syntheses of romantic thought in history, philosophy, and theology. This book will meet the expectations of the specialist as well as appeal to more general readers with philosophical, cultural, and religious interests.
650			_aAesthetics
650			_aEurope
650			_aModern
650			_aPhilosophy
650			_aRomantic
650			_aSaint-Simon
650			_aGod
650			_aNature
650			_aRomanticism Religion
650			_aSpiritual
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