Romantic Disillusionism and the Sceptical Tradition

Rolf P. Lessenich

2017년 1월 · Super alta perennis 20권 · V&R Unipress

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Platonic Romanticism had a dark underside from its inception: Romantic Disillusionism, encompassing the Gothic and the new demonic doppelganger. The Classical Tradition's conflict between Plato and Pyrrho, foundationalism and scepticism, optimism and pessimism was thus continued. Lord Byron's was the most listened-to and echoed voice of Romantic Disillusionism in Europe, though by far not the only one. This comparative study of a multiplicity of sceptical English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Czech voices shows how traditional Pyrrhonic arguments were updated to suit the decades of the Romantic Movement, surviving as a subversive countercurrent to later Victorianism and resurging in the literature of the Decadence and Fin de Siècle.

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Prof. Dr. Rolf P. Lessenich lehrte vor seiner Emeritierung am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Universität Bonn. Er ist auch Romanist, Komparatist und Mitbegründer des Bonner Centre for the Classical Tradition.