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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
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A group of friends in Jena, Germany in the 1790s sought to revolutionize the way people thought and acted, transforming the way we think about ourselves and the world. They were the first Romantics and their ideas still frame our lives today, empowering us to think with their minds, see with their imagination, and feel with their emotions.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 512 pages
Publication date: 25 May 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
Magnificent Rebels is a triumph, according to The Times, Book of the Week. It is an extraordinary intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of unforgettable characters.
The Sunday Times describes it as a magnificent book: a revelation that could easily become an obsession. The Spectator calls it a thrilling page-turner, by turns comical and tragic. So far, it is my book of the year.
Elegantly written, deeply researched, and totally gripping, according to Simon Sebag Montefiore. In the 1790s, an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind.
The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act for too long. Based in the small German town of Jena, through poetry, drama, philosophy, and science, they transformed the way we think about ourselves and the world around us.
They were the first Romantics. Their way of understanding the world still frames our lives and being. We are still empowered by their daring leap into the self. We still think with their minds, see with their imagination, and feel with their emotions.
We also still walk the same tightrope between meaningful self-fulfilment and destructive narcissism, between the rights of the individual and our role as a member of our community and our responsibilities towards future generations who will inhabit this planet.
This extraordinary group of friends changed our world. It is impossible to imagine our lives, thoughts, and understanding without the foundation of their ground-breaking ideas.
Weight: 376g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529392760
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