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One of the century's most influential philosophers assesses a movement that changed the course of history in this unedited transcript of his 1965 Mellon lecture series. For Berlin, the Romantics set in motion a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics with incalculable, all-pervasive results, the ideas and attitudes held by these and other figures helped to shape twentieth-century nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, and our ideas about heroic individuals, individual self-fulfillment, and the exalted place of art. This is the record of an intellectual bravura performance--of one of the century's most influential philosophers dissecting and assessing a movement that changed the course of history. For Berlin, this is the triumph of the local and the humble over all of our arrogant pretensions to universal truth, the greatest transformation of Western consciousness resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the Romantic movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism. The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect. In addition, romanticism was a philosophical revolt against rationalism.Isaiah Berlin?s, The Roots of Romanticism, is a collection of 6 lectures which explores the sources and lasting effects of RomanticismIn Lecture 1, Berlin proclaims that he is not going to attempt to provide a definition of Romanticism. What he wants to do is convey in some other way what he thinks romanticism is. He tells us that "romanticism is the largest recent movement to transform the lives and the thought of the Western world; it is the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred. Romanticism was a gigantic and radical transformation, after which nothing was ever the same. In Lecture 2, Berlin describes the work of the Romantics in terms of preaching and sermons, to emphasize his point that Romanticism represented not only a transformation of values, but a rupture with the Enlightenment?s commitment to reason and objectivity. His goal was to diversify the light of reason appealed to by Enlightenment thinkers, not to extinguish it as Berlin?s account would lead us to believe.In Lecture 3, Berlin gives good account of the historical turn, a turn which can be linked to Herder and his focus upon the languages and customs of particular cultures. Herder emphasized the historical nature of languages and customs, and this focus stood in sharp contrast to the Enlightenment interest in the unchanging and universal elements of human experience, an emphasis on tradition led to an exclusive sense of belonging, to a commitment to one tradition and a blind rejection of all other traditions. The idea of a cosmopolitan man is to Herder. He is one of the fathers of the Romantic Movement, and in a case of the fruit not falling far from the proverbial tree; Berlin accuses Herder?s children, the Romantics, of sharing his rejection of cosmopolitanismIn Lecture 4, we are given an account of Kant, Schiller, and Fiche?s role in Romanticism. Although Berlin describes Kant as an admirer of the sciences who hated romanticism, he also tells us that, Kant is just one of the fathers of romanticism and that Kant is both a hater of Romanticism and one of the movement?s fathers. Again, Romanticism and science are kept at a distance by Berlin. Nonetheless, Kant, a scientific philosopher, turns out to stand in close relation to the Romantics because, according to Berlin, it is the primacy of the will idea that captivated the Romantics and made them the heirs to Kant?s philosophy (and Kant an unlikely father-figurIn Lecture 5, we are given glimpses into the Jena Romantic circle, Berlin tells us that August Wilhelm Schlegel married a lady because she was about to have a child. This lady is Caroline, and saving Caroline?s honor was A.W. Schlegel?s only motive in choosing her as his partner. Romanticism was unique insofar as women played an active role in the movement. This journal became an important literary vehicle that challenged those social conventions of the period that oppressed human beings.In Lecture 6, Berlin tells us that Romanticism is a movement rooted in a resistance to reality, a passionate embrace of the self-creating will. Of all of the features presented in Berlin?s portrait of Romanticism, it is the passionate embrace of the self-creating will that is pivotal for the development of what Berlin claims were the two prominent consequences of Romanticism: existentialism and fascism.For Details please refer the following websites:http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Romanti cism-Isaiah-Berlin/dp/0691086621http://pres s.princeton.edu/titles/6544.htmlhttp://www. alibris.com/search/books/qwork/5811570/used /The%20roots%20of%20romanticismhttp://www.w orldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/4e3e3039 20be9a80a19afeb4da09e526.htmlhttp://www.ama zon.ca/Introducing-Romanticism-Duncan-Heath/dp/1840466715

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