One of the most persistent narratives about the Romantic period is concerned with
the origin of modernity. Several fundamental transformations and events – the
American Declaration of Independence, the French Revolution, the Industrial
Revolution, the functional differentiation of society, the development of the modern
scientific system, and the gradual secularisation of Western society – characterise
the Romantic period as an age of transition towards something fundamentally
new. Particularly the crisis of religion creates a sense that the concept of
history is no longer experienced in terms of eschatology but rather as an immaimmanent
trajectory without beginning or end.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:91678 |
| Date | 28 May 2024 |
| Creators | Haekel, Ralf |
| Publisher | de Gruyter |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1865-8938, 0340-5222, 10.1515/ang-2021-0032 |
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