3.2 Romantic Interlude
Last modified 05/17/2008
| We can note in passing additional evidence of the complexity of the Enlightenment by noting that just as the nexus from Rousseau to Kant and onward produced a counterpoint to the standard chorus of Enlightenment rationalism, so synchronously and in direct correlation, despite its complexities of definition, the Romantic Movement arose in perfect correlation, and its own logic, as a dialectic of the Enlightenment, a parallel movement in the multi-dimensional symphony of secularism cascading from the divide. From a rubric of the arts to a celebration of nature in its fullest scope beyond the reductions of physicalism this surge at the cresting point of the secular tide played a descant on the thematic of the rational that is taking off in the forms and instruments of science. The phenomenon reminds us that our modern transition is almost mysterious in its logic of emergence, and yet its net outcome shows clearly an enrichment of potential peaking at the moment of the 'ship's departure' into a new age of world history. The Romantic movement is a vast subject, yet we can by simple eonic analysis manage a deft overview, to see at a glance its dialectical significance in the greater movement of the eonic series, and its latest manifestation, the modern transition. | ||
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