Romantic disillusionism and the sceptical tradition /

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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Lessenich, Rolf P.,
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 ; 20
Physical Description:1 online resource (484 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • The two sides of romanticism
  • Introduction
  • Romantic disillusionism
  • Heterogeneous man's weak will and mind
  • The vanity of the passions (1) The vanity of love (2) The vanity of glory
  • The injustice of the world
  • Doubt of synthesis: the aimlessness of history
  • Doubt of resurrection and regeneration: cultural pessimism
  • Man's isolation and progressive disappointment
  • The falseness of philosophical essentialism and systems
  • Retrospect and outlook: the intellectual searcher's negative epiphany
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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