<strong>Philosophical Romanticism</strong> is one of the first books to address therelationship between philosophy and romanticism an area which is currentlyund... » 

Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address therelationship between philosophy and romanticism an area which is currentlyundergoing a major revival. This collection of speciallywritten articles byworldclass philosophers explores the contribution of romantic thought totopics such as freedom autonomy and subjectivity memory and imaginationpluralism and practical reason modernism scepticism and irony art andethics and cosmology time and technology.While the roots of romanticism are to be found in early German idealismPhilosophical Romanticism shows that it is not a purely European phenomenonthe development of romanticism can be traced through to North Americanphilosophy in the era of Emerson and Dewey and up to the current work ofStanley Cavell and Richard Rorty. The articles in this collection suggest thatphilosophical romanticism offers a compelling alternative to both thereductionist tendencies of the naturalism in analytic philosophy and thedeconstruction and other forms of scepticism found in continental philosophy.The thinkers and writers studied in Philosophical Romanticism include ProustGoethe Heidegger Novalis Deleuze Holderlin Wittgenstein and Wordsworth. «