Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era

Winner of the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize given by the International Conference on Romanticism

This original study explores the new idea of theory that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. Leon Chai sees in the Romantic age a significant movement across several broad fields of intellectual endeavor, from theoretical concepts to an attempt to understand how they arise. He contends that this movement led to a spatial treatment of concepts, the primacy of development over concepts, an...