Cleansing the Doors of Perception. William Blake, Romanticism and the Meaning Crisis
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The episode discusses the Romantic movement's response to the Enlightenment and its implications for meaning and feeling in the modern world.
The Romantic movement is a tragic movement. In response to the Enlightenment, poets and painters sought a return of feeling but failed in one crucial aspect: to ground the vision, to make clear how it is a means of truth. The result is that, alongside the wonderful, powerful presence of reason in the modern world, runs a desire to intensify feeling is if that can bring back the meaning otherwise lost to the technological and abstract. Only, ungrounded, Romantic feeling doesn't. Instead, too o...
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