Tagged: Novalis

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 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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