{"product_id":"9783847106326-romantic-disillusionism-and-the-sceptical-tradition","title":"Romantic Disillusionism and the Sceptical Tradition","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeoplatonic 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 Siecle. Read more Continue reading Read less ABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003eProf. Dr. Rolf P. Lessenich lehrte vor seiner Emeritierung am Institut fur Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Universitat Bonn. Er ist auch Romanist, Komparatist und Mitbegrunder des Bonner Centre for the Classical Tradition. Read more Continue reading Read less\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55170739405174,"sku":"9783847106326","price":107.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33911481.jpg?v=1754635670","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9783847106326-romantic-disillusionism-and-the-sceptical-tradition","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}