LEADER 02720nam 2200469 450 001 9910160712503321 005 20230810001809.0 010 $a3-7370-0632-6 010 $a3-8470-0632-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001026102 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4792267 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001026102 100 $a20191205d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRomantic disillusionism and the sceptical tradition /$fRolf P. Lessenich 210 1$aGo?ttingen :$cV & R Unipress :$cBonn University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (484 pages) 225 0 $aSuper alta perennis : Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike ;$v20 311 $a3-8471-0632-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aNeoplatonic 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. 606 $aRomanticism 606 $aSkepticism 606 $aComparative literature 615 0$aRomanticism. 615 0$aSkepticism. 615 0$aComparative literature. 676 $a809.9145 700 $aLessenich$b Rolf P.$01246130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160712503321 996 $aRomantic disillusionism and the sceptical tradition$92889594 997 $aUNINA