ROMANTICISM EXCURSION

Name __________________

1. Name the term that can be used to describe the forces that have shaped the modern world _________________________.

2. It has also been called: ______________________________________________

3. Romanticism was a rejection of the Enlightenment and the emphasis was upon

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4. The Enlightenment thinkers believed that the world of _______________ is rationally ordered and that human reason can analyze, understand, and use it.

5. Name the four elements Romanticism exalted: ______________________________

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6. romanticism looked on nature not as a world of objects to be manipulated and dissected, but as something to be ______________________________________

7. Romantics regarded nature in an almost _________________________ way.

8. In exalting feelings and emotions over reason, Romanticism also exalted the _____________________

9. ____________________deals in truths are independent of private judgment--truths that can be understood and shared.

10. ___________________________tend to personal and to isolate the self from other selves.

11. Romanticism suggested that there are no objective _____________that need be accepted by everyone.

12. Name the author who had a significant impact during this time __________________

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13. What was the name of the character he wrote about? ________________________

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14. His first love affair ended when his fiancee died from _________________________

15. He longed for a return to the stability of what time? __________________________

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16. The optimism of this time focused on the role of the great men or the ____________

17. Nietzsche wanted to call for a _______________of old values into new ones.

18. He feared that the final result might be an assertion of no values at all. Name the term which defines this belief __________________---the belief in nothing.

19. This philosophy rejected the social order of the time and its _________________.

20. Kroptkin described nibilism as the struggle for individual freedom and against three factors. Name them: ___________________________________________________

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21. The logical outcome of this philosophy is the conviction that nothing matters but the

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22. Great Britain and the United States sought to establish the norms of first century Christianity. Name this movement. ___________________________________

23. Name the strong cultural movement that took place during the 19th century among the peoples of eastern Europe. ___________________________________________

24. The slogan of the French Revolution could have been. ______________________

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25. The goal was full participation of the ______________in running their government.

26. Name two writers whose views influenced the course of events in politics.

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27. The forces of liberalism attempted to reverse the conservative trend, were they successful? __________________

28. The period called __________________________made its greatest gains after 1830.

29. Most of the programs for this period had an _____________________appeal.

30. What year dampened utopian plans for decades? ________________________

31. Another emphasis was ____________________________--the attempt to portray the past or present as faithfully as possible.