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Jena 1800 : the republic of free spirits / Peter Neumann ; translated from the German by Shelley Frisch.

by Neumann, Peter, 1987- author.

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Romanticism -- Germany.

German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Philosophy, German -- 19th century.

Jena (Germany) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

9780374178697 (hardcover) :

0374178690 (hardcover) :

vi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

First American edition.

The morning after -- The unfinished revolution -- The gift of a year -- Restless world spirit -- Lifepaths: what became of them.

The morning after -- Part I: The unfinished revolution -- A philosophy takes the continent by storm -- Venturing into freedom: Madame Bhmer dips her toe into the revolution -- Best regards, your outside world: Fichte, Schelling, and the I -- Much ado: The era onstage -- The Dresden pause for artistic effect: In the arms of the Madonna -- Part II: The gift of a year -- The most beautiful chaos: Lucinde, or the audacity of love -- The imagined subject: Fichte before the law -- Helping hands: To the moon and back -- To Schlegel or to be Schlegeled: Literary devilries -- The old man from the mountain: In paradise with Goethe -- Intermezzo: A century deferred -- History is made: Schiller and the storming of the Salana -- Vexing the Evangelists: Novalis and the religion of the future -- Rulers without a realm: The family of glorious outlaws -- Part III: Restless world spirit -- Gardeners and scholars: Speculations over the abyss -- Leaden times: Schelling under fire -- Hegel and the nutcrackers: Philosophy is not for mindless munching -- Kant in fifteen minutes: Germaine de St︠al extends an invitation -- Clearing new ground: In the mine of poetry -- The night before.

"Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others. Nowhere was the excitement more palpable than among the extraordinary group of poets, philosophers, translators, and socialites who gathered in this Thuringian village of just four thousand residents. Jena became the place for the young and intellectually curious, the site of a new departure, of philosophical disruption. Influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, then an elder statesman and artistic eminence, the leading figures among the disruptors--the translator August Wilhelm Schlegel; the philosophers Friedrich "Fritz" Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling; the dazzling, controversial intellectual Caroline Schlegel, married to August; Dorothea Schlegel, a poet and translator, married to Fritz; and the poets Ludwig Tieck and Novalis--resolved to rethink the world, to establish a republic of free spirits. They didn't just question inherited societal traditions; with their provocative views of the individual and of nature, they revolutionized our understanding of freedom and reality." -- inside front jacket flap.

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