2 Romanticism - First Attack on Enlightenment (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

Isaiah Berlin gives the 2nd lecture in a series of 6 on Romanticism and its roots.
All 6 lectures: • Romanticism - Isaiah B...
For Berlin, the Romantics set in motion a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity’s view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics with incalculable, all-pervasive results. As he said of the Romantics elsewhere: “The world has never been the same since, and our politics and morals have been deeply transformed by them. Certainly this has been the most radical, and indeed dramatic, not to say terrifying, change in men’s outlook in modern times.”
In these brilliant lectures Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows how its lasting legacy permeates our own outlook. Combining the freshness and immediacy of the spoken word with Berlin’s inimitable eloquence and wit, the lectures range over a cast of the greatest thinkers and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Kant, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Schlegel, Novalis, Goethe, Blake, Byron, and Beethoven. Berlin argues that the ideas and attitudes held by these and other figures helped to shape twentieth-century nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, and our ideas about heroic individuals, individual self-fulfillment, and the exalted place of art. This is the record of an intellectual bravura performance-of one of the century’s most influential philosophers dissecting and assessing a movement that changed the course of history. These Mellon lectures were delivered in Washington in 1965.
00:00 Program for the Lectures
01:07 Enlightenment Tradition
22:44 Montesquieu & Relativism
26:42 David Hume & Skepticism
32:07 Germans & Sour Grapes
44:32 Hamann & Counter-Enlightenment
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00:00 Program for the Lectures 01:07 Enlightenment Tradition 22:44 Montesquieu & Relativism 26:42 David Hume & Skepticism 32:07 Germans & Sour Grapes 44:32 Hamann & Counter-Enlightenment

[@jakecarlo9950]

Amaaaazing! He captures both the vitriol and poetry of the German critique of French Enlightenment with such tremendous vigor. I love it!

[@golddmane]

such a competent lecturer, the transition and development is seamless yet trackable. A beautiful understanding of history, wish he was still around.

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[@LuigiSimoncini]

A great lecture, thanks!

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welcome back

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Thanks for coming back!

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Any idea what the copyright strike was? Aren't these old lectures in the public domain?

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Sure! The audio is better this time too.

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[@jdzentrist8711]

This explanation of "German sensibility" as "sour grapes" is utterly astonishing in a most positive, delightful way. It helps me understand, among a hundred other things, why Friedrich Schlegel may have converted to Roman Catholicism. The discussion of Pietism enormously enriches my understanding of Kant. The deep and decisive influence of Luther--his world-significance just grows exponentially in my eyes. Freud was a German. Talk about "going deep within." Or Nietzsche's "amor fati." Talk about "sour grapes." But that term does not do justice to the nobility, the divine sublimity, of Nietzsche's thinking. Interestingly, it seems to have been important to Fritz, to try to assimilate himself into his real or imagined, aristocratic, Polish ancestry.

[@thallesvinicius2729]

26:42 ----Uma rachadura um pouco mais profunda foi feita por Hume.

[@jdzentrist8711]

Hamann is the partial source, I've learned, of Saint Pope John Paul II's "theology of the body." This teaching exalts the marriage act into a kind of mysticism. My Hamann studies, years ago, noticed this parallel. Admittedly, my knowledge of both teachings is second-hand, that is, I've merely read about them. I only mention here what I noticed, in case someone else might also see better the truth of these matters. You never forget an epiphany like that one. In any case, that Hamann was such a genius who would have thought about sexual intercourse in such a sublime way, seems evident from Berlin's brilliant discourse on him.

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22:44

[@michaelpekny1255]

attack on seraphims who are guarding the Gods throne. Man, Ox, Eagle, Lion & (Great Spirit / Metatron) - secret of man/ur maggid an, EU bison/Zubr, Eastern Russian Eagle, UK Royality and FF from a "new word of great native Spirit"