The roots of romanticism : the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the fine arts, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The A W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C For Isaiah Berlin, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics. In these lectures, Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism and distils its essence The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. Looks at how the Romantic movement shaped how we think about nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, self-fulfillment, and the place of art