false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171057151m/84713.jpg 84713 5 In these lectures, originally delivered at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art in 1965, acclaimed historian of philosophy Isaiah Berlin addresses the origins of what he deems "the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred." His focus, apart from some digressions into Montesquieu, Hume, and Rousseau, is on the German philosophers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and he runs through the contributions of Herder, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Schlegel, and others in turn. He also shows how romanticism would later influence both the existentialists and the fascists, but paradoxically have its greatest influence upon the emergence of a liberalism that seems at complete odds with the romantic sensibility. Berlin's tone is informed but rarely obtuse, making <I>The Roots of Romanticism</I> as fun to read as it must have been to hear him deliver spoken. <I>--Ron Hogan</I> 829242 1999 The Roots of Romanticism total:58|5:25|4:22|3:7|2:2|1:2| 58 240 94 10 5 2 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Sep 12 17:16:23 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 17:17:14 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 02 14:00:02 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 05:02:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 12 14:23:02 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 14:24:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sun Mar 22 17:42:50 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 17:44:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 19:34:49 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 13:51:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 17:09:43 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 09:22:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 20:55:10 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 20:56:39 -0700 2008 It was quite good and informative and ...... sweetly written

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