Romanticism
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 romanticism | a reaction against enlightenment thought |
| middle ages | romantics wanted to be like the ____________ period |
| sturmund drang | a movement that rejected the influence of french rationalism on german literature; |
| rosseau | stressed the difference between kids and adults, said kids should have individual freedom and learn by trial and error; human kind, nature, and society are organically related |
| kant | sought to accept rationalism in enlightenment & still preserve a belief in human freedom, immortality, and existence of god; noumenal world existed, |
| categorical imperative | an innate sense of moral duty or an awareness; proof of humankind's natural freedom |
| coleridge | imagination was a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite i am; poetry was the highest of human acts; master of gothic poems of the supernatural |
| wordsworth | lost what he believed all humans lose in maturation: their childlike vision and closeness to spiritual reality |
| lord byron | embodiment of the new person of the french revo;dislike by many; rebel; rejected old traditions and championed the cause of personal liberty |
| schlegel | attacked prejudice against women in "lucinde" |
| goethe | greatest german writer of modern times; "faust" "the sorrows of young werther" |
| neo gothicism | when architecture was revived to suit medieval trends |
| castle of neuschwanstein | built by king ludwig II of bavaria in germany; almost bankrupted bavarian monarchy, so never finished; most remarkable 19th century neo-gothic structure |
| sublime | subjects form nature that aroused strong emotions, like fear, dread, and awe & raised questions about whether & how much we control our lives |
| methodism | a revolt against deism and rationalism in the church of england; stressed inward, heartfelt religion & possibility of christian perfection; john wesley |
| herder | humans and societies develop organically over time; use of a common language and universal institutions were forms of tyranny on individuality |
| hegel | thesis, antithesis, synthesis; all periods of history equally important since they're all necessary to later achievements; ideas develop in a revolutionary fashion that involves conflict |
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