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By Michael Löwy,Robert Sayre,Catherine Porter

Romanticism is a worldview that unearths expression over an entire variety of cultural fields—not basically in literature and paintings yet in philosophy, theology, political concept, and social pursuits. In Romanticism opposed to the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a conception that defines romanticism as a cultural protest opposed to smooth bourgeois commercial civilization and paintings to bare the solidarity that underlies the extreme variety of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
After critiquing past conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first eu manifestations, Löwy and Sayre suggest a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by means of romantic writers-from “restitutionist” to varied revolutionary/utopian varieties. In next chapters, they offer prolonged therapy to writers as varied as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. between different issues, they speak about the complicated courting among Marxism and romanticism ahead of final with a mirrored image on extra modern manifestations of romanticism (for instance, surrealism, the occasions of may possibly 1968, and the ecological circulation) in addition to its future.
Students and students of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural reviews can be drawn to this dependent and carefully unique book.

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