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Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment

Isaiah Berlin

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The German Pietists Fought a Lot in the Eighteenth Century

Germans of the eighteenth century were particularly prone to anti-intellectualism and xerophobia. The result was an intense inner life, a great deal of very moving and very interest but highly personal, violently emotional literature. German thinkers adored provincialism which gete and schiller fought against all their lives.

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