In The Roots of Romanticism; one of the twentieth centurys 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 Berlins 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 Berlins correspondence about the lectures and the reactions to them.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. this is the most comprehensive view of the beautiful work of Terunobu Fujimori available in print–with English text ...By TurkeyTo date; this is the most comprehensive view of the beautiful work of Terunobu Fujimori available in print–with English text to boot. His design philosophy is explained in text and by interviews with Fujimori himself. Concept sketches are shown in addition to photographs of completed structures. In my opinion; he is the highlight of this survey and is very well represented.