Shows how the French Revolution transformed and politicized German philosophy. In Germany three political traditions (liberalism, conservatism and romanticism)

“A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times “[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to

Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenc

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