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100 1  Wulf, Andrea,|eauthor. 
245 10 Magnificent rebels :|bthe first romantics and the 
       invention of the self /|cAndrea Wulf. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2022. 
300    xi, 494 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-471) and 
       index. 
520    "From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature 
       comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of 
       young rebels-poets, novelists, philosophers-who, through 
       their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, 
       heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched 
       Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the 
       greatest thinkers of the time. When did we begin to be as 
       self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect
       to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we 
       first ask the question, How can I be free? It all began in
       a quiet university town in Germany in the 1790s, when a 
       group of playwrights, poets, and writers put the self at 
       center stage in their thinking, their writing, and their 
       lives. This brilliant circle included the famous poets 
       Goethe, Schiller, and Novalis; the visionary philosophers 
       Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; the contentious Schlegel 
       brothers; and, in a wonderful cameo, Alexander von 
       Humboldt. And at the heart of this group was the 
       formidable Caroline Schlegel, who sparked their dazzling 
       conversations about the self, nature, identity, and 
       freedom. The French revolutionaries may have changed the 
       political landscape of Europe, but the young Romantics 
       incited a revolution of the mind that transformed our 
       world forever. We are still empowered by their daring leap
       into the self, and by their radical notions of the 
       creative potential of the individual, the highest 
       aspirations of art and science, the unity of nature, and 
       the true meaning of freedom. We also still walk the same 
       tightrope between meaningful self-fulfillment and 
       destructive narcissism, between the rights of the 
       individual and our responsibilities toward our community 
       and future generations. At the heart of this inspiring 
       book is the extremely modern tension between the dangers 
       of selfishness and the thrilling possibilities of free 
       will"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Romanticism|zGermany|vBiography. 
650  0 Self in literature. 
650  0 Authors, German|y19th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Self-realization. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft