WORD PROJECT

EL ROMANTICISMO

Romanticism is a cultural movement that

originated in Germany and the United
Kingdom at the end of the 18th century
as a revolutionary reaction against the
Enlightenment and Neoclassicism, giving
priority to feelings
Its origin is in Germany. Philosophy
professor Javier Hernández Pacheco
specifies in his book The romantic
consciousness (Tecnos, 1995) why the
first steps were taken there: he points
to the literary maturity of the German
language, represented by Goethe and his
recently published Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre (The years Wilhelm Meister's
apprenticeship, 1795-96); the political
hope embodied by the French Revolution;
and the idealistic philosophy,
represented by the Doctrine of Science,
in which the German philosopher Johann
Gottlieb Fichte radicalizes the Kantian
philosophy to the extreme.
The eighteenth century had not ended
when in the city of Jena, in the so-
called Jena Circle around the brothers
Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel,
that transgressive and radical rupture
was forged that pursued the union of
all the arts under the command of
poetry. . "If you want to penetrate
into the depths of physics, start in
the mysteries of poetry", advocated
Friedrich Schlegel. Faced with the
domain of reason and order, freedom,
subjectivity, sentiment prevail;
against the perfect, the unfinished,
the fragmentary; versus the universal,
the individual. mysteries of poetry”,
advocated Friedrich Schlegel. Faced
with the domain of reason and order,
freedom, subjectivity, sentiment
prevail; against the perfect, the
unfinished, the fragmentary; versus the
universal, the individual.