German Romanticism: from Goethe to Hegel

3 credits · Undergraduate

Genuine feeling and political liberation are enhanced by attention to classical antiquity and modern folktale. Apparently a reaction against the modern, from Goethe to Hegel, Romanticism manages to eclipse almost everything else and define some six decades of German philosophy and literature in the writings of Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, A.W. and Friedrich Schlegel, Eichendorff, Hölderlin, Schelling, Hegel, Büchner. CROSSLISTED: EMSP 2290 FORMATS: Lecture | Discussion