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Romanticism, Rousseau
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The Passions
I had feelings before I had thoughts: that is the common lot of humanity (588)
By this dangerous methods [reading romances] I acquired in a short time not only a marked facility for reading and comprehension, but also an understanding, unique in one of my years, of the passions (588)
Everything fostered the tendencies that nature herself had planted in my heart. I knew no greater happiness than to see everyone content with me and with the world in general (592)
My heart was eager to pour itself out, provided it felt that another was open to receive it (596)
Confessions, by Jean-Jacque Rousseau
Intus, et in cute (Inside and under the skin)
"I am resolved on an undertaking that has no model and will have no imitator. I want to show my fellow-men a man in all the truth of nature; and this man is to be myself" (586)
Significance?
Similarities? Differences?
Objectives
- To examine the historical underpinnings of the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period
Romanticism
- To analyze the societal and psychological changes that accompanied Romanticism by examining the works of Rousseau, Goethe, and others.
Documentary Questions
Enlightenment to Romanticism
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
While both Enlightenment thinkers and Romantic philosophers disparaged the hierarchies of Europe and England, these two movements were unique. What characteristics differed between the philosophy of the Enlightenment and philosophy of Romanticism?
Conclusion
What were the historical underpinnings of the Romantic Movement?
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
After the French Revolution, many began to question Enlightenment ideals. How did the Romantics view this event and how did it shape their philosophy?
What aspects of the Enlightenment does this poem possess?
What is the theme of this poem?
What were the philosophical differences between the Enlightenment and the Romantic Movements
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving A Lecture at the Orrery
A Reading in the Salon of Mme Geoffrin
El Tres de Mayo, by Francisco de Goya
George Stubbs, “A Lion Attacking a Horse,”
Characteristics?
How did the relationship between the individual and society change during the Romantic movement?
Contemporary Society?
Personal Opinion?