TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neumann,Peter
AU  - Frisch,Shelley Laura
TI  - Jena 1800: the republic of free spirits 
SN  - 9780374178697
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Germany
KW  - German literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Philosophy, German
KW  - Jena (Germany)
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Originally published in German in 2018 by Siedler Verlag, Germany"; Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index
N2  - "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 Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others.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
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