Las raíces del romanticismo

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Taurus, 2000 - 226 páginas
El romanticismo supuso el cambio de mayor envergadura ocurrido en la conciencia de Occidente a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX. De ahi su enorme importancia. Todos los otros movimientos que tuvieron lugar durante el periodo parecen, en comparacion, menos importantes y estan, de todas maneras, profundamente influenciados por este.Para Isaiah Berlin, los romanticos pusieron en marcha una revolucion sin precedentes en la perspectiva que la humanidad tenia de si misma. Destruyeron las nociones tradicionales de verdad objetiva y de validez etica y causaron efectos incalculables en todos los aspectos de la vida. En su opinion: 'El mundo no ha sido lo mismo desde entonces, nuestra politica y nuestra moral se han visto profundamente transformadas por ellos. Sin duda, este ha sido el cambio mas radical y mas dramatico, por no decir el mas pavoroso, en la perspectiva del hombre de los tiempos modernos'.En las brillantes reflexiones que recoge este libro, Berlin, uno de los principales historiadores de las ideas del siglo XX, traza el desarrollo del romanticismo desde su despertar en el siglo XVIII hasta su desenfrenada apoteosis, mostrandonos como este legado aun perdura en la conciencia contemporanea.

Sobre el autor (2000)

Philosopher, political theorist, and essayist, Isaiah Berlin was born in 1909 to Russian-speaking Jewish parents in Latvia. Reared in Latvia and later in Russia, Berlin developed a strong Russian-Jewish identity, having witnessed both the Social-Democratic and the Bolshevik Revolutions. At the age of 12, Berlin moved with his family to England, where he attended prep school and then St. Paul's. In 1928, he went up as a scholar to Corpus Christi College in Oxford. After an unsuccessful attempt at the Manchester Guardian, Berlin was offered a position as lecturer in philosophy at New College. Almost immediately, he was elected to a fellowship at All Souls. During this time at All Souls, Berlin wrote his brilliant biographical study of Marx, titled Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939), for the Home University Library. Berlin continued to teach through early World War II, and was then sent to New York by the Ministry of Information, and subsequently to the Foreign Office in Washington, D.C. It was during these years that he drafted several fine works regarding the changing political mood of the United States, collected in Washington Despatches 1941-1945 (1981). By the end of the war, Berlin had shifted his focus from philosophy to the history of ideas, and in 1950 he returned to All Souls. In 1957, he was elected to the Chichele Chair of Social and Political Theory, delivering his influential and best-known inaugural lecture, Two Concepts of Liberty. Some of his works include Liberty, The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism, Flourishing: Selected Letters 1928 - 1946, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought, and Unfinished Dialogue, Prometheus. Berlin died in Oxford on November 5, 1997.

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