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

when she leaves prison, she is really treated as an outlaw.

And then the older Schlegel brother, August Schlegel, he marries her.

He comes to her rescue.

He marries her and gives her a new name.

And, um,

a new beginning and they moved to Jena.

And this is really the beginning of the Jena set.

I forgot one very important one, which is Fichte, who is a philosopher who kind of puts the self in the center of his philosophy.

So they all come together

in the mid 1790s in this kind of small town in Germany, which, you know, most people outside Germany have never heard of 4,000 people.

And it becomes the kind of the nexus of a new philosophy of romanticism.

And, um,

So in one day, with some luck, in Jena, you would have seen more famous people than in a whole century in another town.

I mean, it's quite extraordinary.

So they believe that working together, not everybody in their kind of little study, but working together will change.

create a kind of greater philosophy.

You know, it's about the kind of the group.

So they become, they kind of sit together in Carolina's house and they work together and they are the very first to use the word romanticism in its kind of new meaning, in its kind of literary meaning.

So they, and they, you know, today, I mean, if you,

I mean, and I've tried this a lot of times.

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