Germans Behaving Badly (TRIH ep 234)
1798 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Andrea Wulf about her book Magnificent Rebels, which traces the origins of Romanticism to a cluster of philosophers, poets and critics gathered in the university town of Jena in the 1790s. Wulf outlines why Jena — a small, relatively uncensored, intellectually dense place — became fertile ground for figures such as Fichte, the Schlegel brothers, Novalis, Schelling, Goethe and Schiller. She explains key ideas (the elevation of the s...
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