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

If you ask people, what is romanticism?

You get so many different answers.

So many people will say, you know, think of the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, kind of these kind of lone figures in moonlit forests.

And others think, oh, the romantics, they were all...

against reason and celebrated irrational thinking.

And others think of passionate declarations of love or candlelight dinners.

But for them, romanticism was something much more complex and unwieldy and dynamic.

And they basically said that everything is romantic poetry.

So from a piece of music

to a painting, even a scientific experiment, is romantic poetry.

Because they said to romanticize means to unite humankind with nature and to unite arts and science.

And for me, that was always the thing that I did find so fascinating about them, this kind of bringing together

the arts and sciences, which at that point, we're beginning to kind of really separate.

So if you look back much earlier to someone like Leonardo da Vinci, for example, this is someone who's interested in engineering and botany and sculpture and mathematics.

But with the Enlightenment and with the sciences becoming more and more specialized, you have that kind of separation between the arts and the sciences more and more.

And the romantics are really trying to kind of fight against this dischargment of the world, this kind of more and more materialistic world.

So they believe that romantic poetry can kind of

bring together these kind of very different disciplines and create something completely new with it.

I think developing it mostly, but they're also very young and contrary.

It is also part of being young and contrary to kind of

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