How do the imagination, Tristan and Isolde, and Jean Jacques Rousseau resonate? What is the relation between the Enlightenment and the Romantics of the 19th century? And can we find truth by looking within ourselves? These elements and questions compose todays topic: Romanticism.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Welcome to Political Compositions, where political philosophers Gijs van Oenen en Jamie van der Klaauw explore the last 250 years of political, social, and cultural philosophy. 

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