Andrea Wulf

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625 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

And there are, I mean, he has these, not just public fights with Immanuel Kant, but also with other thinkers where, you know, anyone who writes that slavery is good or that, you know, there are inferior opinions

nations he criticizes and he uses I mean he uses quite cleverly he writes a lot of reviews and the beauty about I mean I really enjoy writing reviews because it's a kind of little it's like a jewel of writing you know it's just the it's short but you can all you know you obviously describe the book you are reviewing but you can also bring in your own opinion so he uses he purposefully

chooses books that are either pro or anti-slavery and then uses those to kind of elaborate his own opinion.

So they're kind of these sharp, short forms of text, which he uses kind of in a very, I think, tailored way.

There is, very much so.

So the young romantics who come together in Jena, the magnificent rebels, there is one extraordinary woman there called Karoline Schlegel, and she is...

or was a very good friend with Foster.

So she lived in Mainz during the kind of, you know, the establishment of the Mainz Republic.

So when she afterwards moves to Jena, she kind of brings his ideas with her.

So they kind of, they talk about him, they read his writings.

He's very much admired because also he is really the,

He's a stepping stone from the Enlightenment to the Romantics.

Because on the one hand, he very much values observation and rational thought, but he also underlines the importance of

subjectivity, feelings, art and imagination, which are, of course, subjects that become very, very important for the for the young romantic.

So he's, he's, he's almost this kind of first stepping stone away from pure enlightenment thinking to something slightly different, you know, which then becomes kind of full blown romanticism.

Yes, so it's a group of rebellious thinkers, philosophers, and writers, including Goethe, Schiller, who's the kind of famous playwright who wrote...

the robbers.

Then we have Schelling, who was Friedrich Schelling.

There's a lot of them are called Friedrich.

So Friedrich Schelling, who's this young philosopher who really comes up with a philosophy of oneness, where we as humans are part of nature.

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