The roots of romanticism / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by John Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Contributor:

Hardy, Henry.

Series:

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts

Bollingen series 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Modern--18th century.

Arts, Modern.

Romanticism in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a bravura intellectual performance. Isaiah Berlin surveys the many attempts to define romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows how it still permeates our outlook. He ranges over a cast of some of the greatest thinkers and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Kant, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, the Schlegels, Novalis, Goethe, Blake, Byron, and Beethoven. The ideas and attitudes of these and other figures, Berlin argues, helped to shape twentieth-century nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, and our ideas about heroic individuals, self-fulfillment, and the exalted place of art. This new edition, illustrated for the first time, also features a new foreword by philosopher John Gray, in which he discusses Berlin's belief that the influence of romanticism has been unpredictable and contradictory in the extreme, fuelling anti-liberal political movements but also reinvigorating liberalism; a revised text; and a new appendix that includes some of Berlin's correspondence about the lectures and the reactions to them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Gray, John

Editor's Preface

1. In Search of a Definition

2. The First Attack on Enlightenment

3. The True Fathers of Romanticism

4. The Restrained Romantics

5. Unbridled Romanticism

6. The Lasting Effects

Appendix to the Second Edition

References

Index

The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1952-2013

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)

ISBN:

9781400846696

1400846692

OCLC:

841929885