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A paper which compares and contrasts several of the thinkers of the Romantic movement, such as Hegel, Rousseau and Schopenhauer, and considers the similarities and differences between their views of perceptions of reality and the relationship between the individual, society and the collective unconscious. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the fact that they are generically considered within the same parameters of Romanticism. However, although there are certainly some cultural and intellectual similarities, one could also state that what is
more interesting about these thinkers is their different approaches to the same questions regarding society, culture and the human condition in general.
Romanticism itself cannot be seen in isolation from the historical and cultural substructure which gave rise to it:
it is necessary to remember that it was preceded by the strong emphasis on empiricism and rationality which characterised the Enlightenment, which in turn developed as a rejection of the
superstition and unstructured thinking of the previous era. Although the Enlightenment encouraged the development of rational thought and objectivity, it also tended to marginalize imagination and creativity: the mechanical was
valued more highly than the artistic. Romanticism, as a reaction to this way of thinking, tended to stress the positive elements of creativity, the Self, and the imaginative rather than
the highly codified and structured. As a movement, it encompassed both
philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism is the change from the objectivity required by Enlightenment thought
to a far more subjective perspective. Empiricism requires a totally objective analysis of phenomena, which at the time it was assumed could be achieved, since the problems arising from the
inevitable interaction of observer with observed had not yet been recognised. Rationalists asserted that it was possible to study the world on completely objective terms, without ones observation being coloured
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