Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics
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Transcending Disciplines
Poet novalis is an example of the fluidity of boundaries between disciplines, in this set. Other thinkers took those philosophical ideas and they translated them into science or art. They want to create something that is complex,. unwieldy, am forever becoming, they said, inherently unfinished. So romantic poetry, for them, can be anything.
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