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The Roots of Romanticism Author: Isaiah Berlin / Henry Hardy Publisher: Yilin Press
The Roots of Romanticism Author: Isaiah Berlin / Henry Hardy Publisher: Yilin Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
After Romanticism, the world is no longer the same.
After Berlin, Romanticism was never the same.
This book is compiled based on the recording of the Mellon Lecture on "Romanticism" given by Berlin in 1965. Starting from the definition of romanticism, it recounts its origin, growth and expansion, and explores its huge and lasting influence. Berlin uses the perspective of the history of ideas that has never been used before to show the incomparable power of the romantic revolution as a cognitive method and ideological consciousness. Berlin's speech is clearly structured, his thinking is meticulous, and his allusions are like a flood. It is a magnificent music of thought and a genius moment favored by God.
"Berlin's scholarly genius is fully demonstrated in this work: quick-witted, erudite, profound and stimulating. Reading this book is like witnessing fresh ideas forged from the furnace of a genius mind."
—John Banville
"This is a book that will be a welcome start for any prime minister, president or cultural critic. Berlin writes about the tolerance and understanding we need to have when faced with the diversity of human needs and desires, and the incompatibility of different ideals."
—Peter Mudford, The Times Literary Supplement
"You can hear the torrent of language swelling, crashing into each other, surging again and again... It's thought-provoking, stirring, full of natural raw tension. This is the core of Romanticism."
——《Key Reporter》
About the Author · · · · · ·
Sir Isaiah Berlin
(Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1909-1997)
British philosopher, historian of ideas, and famous liberal intellectual in the 20th century. Born into a Russian Jewish family, he witnessed the Russian Revolution in his childhood and went to England with his parents in 1921. In 1928, he entered Oxford University to study philosophy, wrote "Karl Marx" in 1939, and turned to the study of the history of ideas in 1944. In 1957, he became a professor of social and political theory at Oxford University, delivered a groundbreaking speech on "Two Concepts of Freedom", and was knighted in the same year. In 1966, he participated in the establishment of Wolfson College, Oxford University and served as its first dean. As an outstanding historian of ideas and the main founder of the discipline, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for Literature and the Erasmus Prize.
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Editor's Preface 1. The Search for a Definition 2. The First Attack on the Enlightenment 3. The Real Fathers of Romanticism 4. The Reserved Romantics 5. Unrestrained Romanticism 6. Lasting Influence Appendix to the Second Edition References Index Proofreading and Translation New Notes
