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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by stana on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:07PM (#38675918)
Romanticism of 19th century can be thought of as rationality winning over less rational religion. The 'God is dead' sort of thinking. Yet in the midst of all of this rationality and scientific progress we end up with 2 world wars?
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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by ookdatnog on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:52AM (#38681749)
> Romanticism of 19th century can be thought of as rationality winning over less rational religion.

Quite the opposite: Romanticism was a reaction to (and rejection of) the rationality of the Enlightenment. Romanticism celebrated strong, overwhelming emotions, such as nationalistic zeal.

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