Romantic disillusionism and the sceptical tradition
By: Rolf P. Lessenich
Series: Super alta perennis : Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike -- Band 20; Super alta perennis -- Bd. 20.
Publisher: V & R Unipress; Bonn University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9783847106326
Subjects: Romanticism; Skepticism; Comparative literature
Description: Neoplatonic 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.