Romantic Disillusionism and the Sceptical Tradition (eBook)

Rolf P. Lessenich (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
484 Seiten
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8470-0632-9 (ISBN)

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Platonic Romanticism had a dark underside from its inception: Romantic Disillusionism, encompassing the Gothic and the new demonic doppelganger. The Classical Tradition's conflict between Plato and Pyrrho, foundationalism and scepticism, optimism and pessimism was thus continued. Lord Byron's was the most listened-to and echoed voice of Romantic Disillusionism in Europe, though by far not the only one. This comparative study of a multiplicity of sceptical English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Czech voices shows how traditional Pyrrhonic arguments were updated to suit the decades of the Romantic Movement, surviving as a subversive countercurrent to later Victorianism and resurging in the literature of the Decadence and Fin de Siècle.

Prof. Dr. Rolf P. Lessenich lehrte vor seiner Emeritierung am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Universität Bonn. Er ist auch Romanist, Komparatist und Mitbegründer des Bonner Centre for the Classical Tradition.

Inhalt

Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 8
Body 10
The Two Sides of Romanticism 10
Introduction 32
I Romantic Disillusionism 130
II Heterogeneous Man's Weak Will and Mind 192
III The Vanity of the Passions 232
1) The Vanity of Love 232
2) The Vanity of Glory 279
IV The Injustice of the World 310
V Doubt of Synthesis: The Aimlessness of History 336
VI Doubt of Resurrection and Regeneration: Cultural Pessimism 380
VII Man's Isolation and Progressive Disappointment 410
VIII The Falseness of Philosophical Essentialism and Systems 434
Retrospect and Outlook: The Intellectual Searcher's Negative Epiphany 456
Select Bibliography 462
Index 474

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Super alta perennis
• Reihe/Serie: Super alta perennis.
• Reihe/Serie: Super alta perennis.
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Décadence • Fin de siècle • Lord Byron • Platon • pyrrhon • Romantik • Skeptiker • Skeptizismus
• ISBN-10: 3-8470-0632-0 / 3847006320
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8470-0632-9 / 9783847006329