Jena 1800 : the republic of free spirits
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Author
Contributors
Frisch, Shelley Laura, translator.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
830.9 New
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830.9 New
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in German in 2018 by Siedler Verlag, Germany"
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"The history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world"--,Provided by publisher.
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"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 Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others.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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