Romanticism in National Context
Romanticism in National Context

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-05-27

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780521339131

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Special emphasis is placed on the interplay between Romantic culture and social, political and economic change in this study of the course of Romanticism in various European countries.

A Contemporary in Dissent
A Contemporary in Dissent

Author: Oswald Bayer

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0802866700

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In this biography -- translated for the first time into English -- German theologian Oswald Bayer describes the life and work of journalist-theologian Johann Georg Hamann (1730 1788). At a time when it seemed that the forces of secularization were attempting to claim the future, Hamann churned out small publications aimed at undermining the Enlightenment zeitgeist, turning its assumptions upside down and skewering its pretensions. Although largely forgotten until recent times, Hamann as radical dissenter -- whom Goethe called the "brightest man of his age" -- remains relevant today, as Bayer shows in this book.