Dinner seminar on romanticism with Nicholas Chong (Rutgers)

 In our second session, we will contemplate the long-term consequences of Romantic ideas by reading an excerpt from Isaiah Berlin’s The Roots of Romanticism, a nuanced critique of Romanticism written in the 1960s. Berlin’s text is especially concerned with the way in which the Romantics altered the conception of truth in Western culture. Berlin also considers the influence of Romanticism on political history, which has been complex and full of contradictions.