{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-the-romantics-9781493087112","title":"The Wisdom of the Romantics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the transformative power of Romanticism­--where emotion, imagination, and contradiction collide--through the eyes of its greatest thinkers and artists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe post-Enlightenment movement known as Romanticism is a messy period; so messy, in fact, that many scholars eschew any attempt to define it. In reaction to the overreliance placed on reason by Enlightenment thinkers, Romantics emphasized individual freedom, emotional intensity, introspection, sincerity, and heightened imagination. They sought out nature at its wildest and most sublime: tall mountains, steep gorges, and resounding cataracts. They dabbled in the gothic and grotesque, in mythology, the sacred, and the mystical. Romanticism was a turning inward into subjectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of the Romantics, \u003c\/i\u003eauthor Michael Kellogg profiles such disparate authors as Rousseau and Balzac, Goethe and Hegel, Wordsworth and Jane Austen, revealing that classifying Romantic thinkers is a highly subjective enterprise - which is the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat isn't to say that the change in thinking was inconsequential. Far from it. The transition from Haydn and Mozart to Beethoven and Chopin could not have been more dramatic. The German-born composer Giacomo Meyerbeer brought grand opera to new heights. The paintings of Francisco Goya, William Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, and J. M. W. Turner were all part of the transition away from a classical, academic style to the \"emotive extremes\" that heralded the coming of impressionism in the latter part of the century. In this latest entry into his popular \u003ci\u003eWisdom \u003c\/i\u003eseries, Kellogg explores the mercurial and ephemeral movement known as \"Romanticism,\" arguing that what Romanticism \"is\" includes many contradictions, precisely what the rationalists rejected. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael K. Kellogg (Washington, DC), educated at Stanford and Oxford in philosophy and at Harvard Law School, is a founding and managing partner at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans \u0026amp; Figel, PLLC. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Wisdom of the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Search for Wisdom, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Search for Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Prometheus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254170288402,"sku":"9781493087112","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f198a536-6ad9-4733-8c51-678d351ae6ff.jpg?v=1746312502","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wisdom-of-the-romantics-9781493087112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}