Romantic disillusionism and the sceptical tradition / / Rolf P. Lessenich.
Neoplatonic Romanticism had a dark underside from its inception: Romantic Disillusionism, encompassing the Gothic and the new demonic doppelganger. The Classical Tradition's conflict between Plato and Pyrrho, foundationalism and scepticism, optimism and pessimism was thus continued. Lord Byron&...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen : : V & R Unipress :, Bonn University Press,, [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Super alta perennis : Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (484 pages). |
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| Summary: | Neoplatonic Romanticism had a dark underside from its inception: Romantic Disillusionism, encompassing the Gothic and the new demonic doppelganger. The Classical Tradition's conflict between Plato and Pyrrho, foundationalism and scepticism, optimism and pessimism was thus continued. Lord Byron's was the most listened-to and echoed voice of Romantic Disillusionism in Europe, though by far not the only one. This comparative study of a multiplicity of sceptical English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Czech voices shows how traditional Pyrrhonic arguments were updated to suit the decades of the Romantic Movement, surviving as a subversive countercurrent to later Victorianism and resurging in the literature of the Decadence and Fin de Siecle. --Amazon.com. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3737006326 3847006320 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Rolf P. Lessenich. |