What We Owe the Romantics
Romanticism is recognized as a wellspring of modern-day environmental thought and enthusiasm for nature-preservation, but the character of the affinities between the two is less well understood. Essentially, the Romantics realised that nature only becomes a matter for ethical concern,
inspiration and love when the mind and sensibility of the human observer/agent are properly attuned and receptive to its meaning. That attunement involves several factors: a more appropriate scientific paradigm, a subtler appreciation of the impact that the setting of human dwelling, especially
landscape, may have on character; the discovery of 'life' and spontaneity as a motif in science and art; a deeper and more complex sense of time; and a feel for place drawn from the life-world rather than physics or economics. Romanticism invented a new language and set of descriptions to
illuminate all of these things, one we neglect or forget at our peril.
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Keywords: Coleridge; Enlightenment; Goethe; Romanticism; Schelling; Wordsworth; landscape; time; vitalism; wilderness
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: August 1, 2007
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