Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero

Soundtrack to this episode

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-"The Roots of Romanticism" by Isaiah Berlin

-The Jena Set and the Schlegels

-"Rousseau and Romanticism" by Irving Babbitt

-Harold Bloom

-"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin

-"Classic, Romantic, and Modern" by Jacques Barzun

-Inferno IV and XXVI

-Prometheus Bound (probably not by Aeschylus)

-"Paradise Lost" by the GOAT

-The spiritual paradox of Romanticism

-Turns out limbo parties aren't so fun

-Nostalgia for Christianity

-Romantic Irony: Metatextual and Anti-Heroic

-Literature as self-exorcism

-Unambiguous Ambivalence of Judgement

-"The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky

-"Hegel's Theory of Tragedy" by A.C. Bradley

-Varieties of Anti-Hero

-Literary alchemy

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