Christoph von Wolzogen. Eighteen hundred

The eighteen hundreds: The transition from a bloody century to modernity; from a revolution in the way of thinking to the implementation of human rights. This progress has been described many times, but less so its costs and the world that perished in the process. Has not Rousseau's vision of a perfect harmony between the tyranny of a rational state and the needs of human beings as natural beings been fulfilled? But Rousseau and his 'dark' brothers (de Sade, de Maistre and La Mettrie) also knew that man is a clair-obscure, sensual-thinking being, whose depth they plumbed without reaching its limits. In his essay, Christoph v. Wolzogen traces the fine and subtle fault lines that separate the 18th century from the modern age, but which also form the image of man with his peak views and abysses into a whole.

Facts

• Edition Fichter, Frankfurt am Main 2017
• Softcover
• 120 pages with 17 illustrations
• 15 x 20 cm
• 0.4 kg
• ISBN: 978-3-947313-02-0

Keywords

History; Revolution; around 1800; Upheaval; Romanticism;