What is Romanticism?

What is Romanticism?

1. An artistic and intellectual movement in Europe that redifined the ways in people thought about themselves and their world-

2. In the 18th Century established a philosophical movement

3. Enlightment

   • Age of Reason
     • That avocated a reason to be the means in understanding the world and in improving human life.
   • Natural world means: Beautiful, benign and oderly
   • Thinkers:
     • Immanuel Kant
     • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
       • They celebrated reason as the key to liberation from all forms of domination, from ignorance and immaturity down to poverty, inequality and social injustice.

4. Powerful,

5. Importance

   • Emotional sensitivity
   • Individual subjectivity

6. Unpredictable

7. Destructive

   • Landscapes and storms.

8. Imagination is the most important creative faculty.

   • "Trought our imagination, we do not only percieve the world around us, but we create it"

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