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Autor: Haekel, Ralf
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Druh dokumentu: Článek
ISSN: 1865-8938
0340-5222
DOI: 10.1515/ang-2021-0032
Popis: One of the most persistent narratives about the Romantic period is concerned with the origin of modernity. Several fundamental transformations and events – the American Declaration of Independence, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the functional differentiation of society, the development of the modern scientific system, and the gradual secularisation of Western society – characterise the Romantic period as an age of transition towards something fundamentally new. Particularly the crisis of religion creates a sense that the concept of history is no longer experienced in terms of eschatology but rather as an immaimmanent trajectory without beginning or end.
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