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Romantic Individualism in Thought and Art

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Deliberate Regression. The disastrous history of Romantic individualism in thought and art, from Jean Jacques Rousseau to twentieth century fascism

Robert Harbison offers here nothing less than a new perspective on European cultural history since the late 18th c and the birth of Romantic individualism.

Examining the works of a series of major creative figures, mainly artists and philosophers, he discerns an increasingly dangerous pattern of regression: a deliberate, compulsive turning away from what previous ages had considered man's highest faculty -- reason -- to glorify instead the passionate instincts, the wisdom of the untutored child or peasant, the truth of ancient or exotic myth.

History itself echoes the tragic irony: that as Romanticism exalts the individual and his private passions over universal reason, the universal instincts take over and individuality is lost; art become faceless, social awareness inhuman.

Starting with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Watteau, we end at last with Hitler and Stalin.

CONDITION:Hardcover with DJ, book in very good condition, DJ used moderately as seen in photo, note from previous owner inside front cover

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