What Does It Mean to Be Alive in a Crisis?

All those works are written by young men and women who are sort of in the process of working out what it is they think about politics, about society. So these are not abstract kind of philosophical questions. These are urgent questions. And if you read them, what you get is a whole different series of different kinds of answers to that question. What does it mean to be alive at a moment of change of crisis? There's nothing sort of dusty or irrelevant about that question,. I want to take us on now to a few more questions about the lives of the romantics. Serena has asked an interesting question about what role class played in the movement. She's asked, what socioeconomic backgrounds