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Who are the most important Romantic philosophers?

Romanticism (history): Who are the most important Romantic philosophers?
Matthew Parrott

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Answered 7 years ago
Originally Answered: Who are the most important Romantic philosophers? We should start with the founder of Romanticism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The opening of his Confessions reads: "I am unlike anyone I have ever known; I may be no better, but at least I am different." To me, this summarizes the Romantic spirit - a profound respect and passion for individuation mixed with an almost sublime alienation and ambivalence. Rousseau's novel The New Heloise explores the ideas of authenticity and autonomy as moral values. Schiller and Goethe must also be added. Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther is one of the first portrayals of the archetypal suffering young artist - an
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We should start with the founder of Romanticism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.