Rousseau and Romanticism

Author: Owen Brooks
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book is one of the representative works of Owen Brooks (1865-1933), a professor of French literature and comparative literature at Harvard University in the United States, and a leader of the world New Humanism movement at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. In the book, he critiques the Romanticism pioneered by Rousseau from the perspective of classical ethical standards and traces its origins, directly critiquing various concepts of Romanticism in literary and cultural history. The author critiques the ethics, religion, morality, aesthetics, and philosophy of 19th-century European and American societies, with a critical spirit the entire book. It is filled with thought-provoking philosophical reflections and features fluent, witty writing. Readers will not only gain a classical perspective on the literary history of Romanticism but also develop a basic understanding of New Humanism as a global cultural trend.