Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In "Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity" Michael LOwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its...

Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In "Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity" Michael LOwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its...

Examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilisation (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the "Other") before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonisers.