Romanticism and Evolution: The Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

By Bruce Wilshire

Book Overview

This book, originally published by Capricorn Books in 1968, contains writings by the chief exponents of romanticism and the evolutionary theory in its various applications: Rousseau, Kant, Schiller, Blake, Wordsworth, Goethe, Coleridge, Emerson, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, James, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and others. Between them, these two movements carried Western thought from the rationalism of the Enlightenment to the existentialism of the 20th century. Suitable for courses in history and literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819143839
• ISBN13: 9780819143839
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"