Overview
These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, remains a central and exemplary form of both artistic work and philosophical understanding. Richard Eldridge traces the central features of Romantic thinking and shows that Romanticism is neither emptily literary and escapist nor dogmatically optimistic and sentimental. The first serious philosophical defense of the ethical ideals of Romanticism, this volume will appeal particularly to all professionals and students in philosophy, literature and aesthetics.
- | Author: Richard Eldridge
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 05, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 264 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521800463
- | ISBN-13: 9780521800464
