Author: David Lane

Romantic Irony (Part 4)

(Pictured: Nietzsche.) I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...

Romantic Irony (Part 3)

(Pictured: Plotinus.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...

Romantic Irony (Part 2)

(Pictured: Saint Augustine of Hippo.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism...

Romantic Irony (Part I)

(Pictured: Ludwig Tieck.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism....

Romantic Love (Part 3)

(Pictured: George Sand.) I am happy to present the third and concluding post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of...

Romantic Love (Part 2)

(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns...

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