Jena 1800 : the republic of free spirits /
Neumann, Peter, 1987-
Jena 1800 : the republic of free spirits / Jena eighteen hundred Jena one thousand eight hundred Peter Neumann ; translated from the German by Shelley Frisch. - First American edition. - vi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"Originally published in German in 2018 by Siedler Verlag, Germany"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
"The history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world"-- "Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others. Nowhere was the excitement more palpable than among the extraordinary group of poets, philosophers, translators, and socialites who gathered in this Thuringian village of just four thousand residents. Jena became the place for the young and intellectually curious, the site of a new departure, of philosophical disruption. Influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, then an elder statesman and artistic eminence, the leading figures among the disruptors--the translator August Wilhelm Schlegel; the philosophers Friedrich "Fritz" Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling; the dazzling, controversial intellectual Caroline Schlegel, married to August; Dorothea Schlegel, a poet and translator, married to Fritz; and the poets Ludwig Tieck and Novalis--resolved to rethink the world, to establish a republic of free spirits. They didn't just question inherited societal traditions; with their provocative views of the individual and of nature, they revolutionized our understanding of freedom and reality." -- inside front jacket flap.
9780374178697 0374178690
2021025281
Romanticism--Germany.
German literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Philosophy, German--19th century.
Jena (Germany)--Intellectual life--19th century.
Literary criticism.
Jena 1800 : the republic of free spirits / Jena eighteen hundred Jena one thousand eight hundred Peter Neumann ; translated from the German by Shelley Frisch. - First American edition. - vi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"Originally published in German in 2018 by Siedler Verlag, Germany"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
"The history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world"-- "Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others. Nowhere was the excitement more palpable than among the extraordinary group of poets, philosophers, translators, and socialites who gathered in this Thuringian village of just four thousand residents. Jena became the place for the young and intellectually curious, the site of a new departure, of philosophical disruption. Influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, then an elder statesman and artistic eminence, the leading figures among the disruptors--the translator August Wilhelm Schlegel; the philosophers Friedrich "Fritz" Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling; the dazzling, controversial intellectual Caroline Schlegel, married to August; Dorothea Schlegel, a poet and translator, married to Fritz; and the poets Ludwig Tieck and Novalis--resolved to rethink the world, to establish a republic of free spirits. They didn't just question inherited societal traditions; with their provocative views of the individual and of nature, they revolutionized our understanding of freedom and reality." -- inside front jacket flap.
9780374178697 0374178690
2021025281
Romanticism--Germany.
German literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Philosophy, German--19th century.
Jena (Germany)--Intellectual life--19th century.
Literary criticism.