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The Struggle Between Rationalism and Romanticism: A 19th Century Perspective

This exploration delves into the contrast between Rationalism and Romanticism during the 1800-1860 period. Rationalism advocates a factual, methodical problem-solving approach, while Romanticism celebrates emotion, imagination, and the search for deeper truths. The city represents moral ambiguity and corruption, prompting individuals to seek clarity and health in the countryside. Romanticism values unspoiled nature, powerful emotions, and poetic expression, advocating for a hero that embodies youthful innocence and intuition, contrasting sharply with the worldly rationalist.

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The Struggle Between Rationalism and Romanticism: A 19th Century Perspective

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  1. Romanticism 1800-1860

  2. Plain, factual, methodical way to approach a problem and obtain a logical solution. Rationalism vs Romanticism

  3. City was a place to find success and self-realization City was a place of moral ambiguity, corruption, and death. Journeyed to countryside for moral clarity, healthful living, and imagination Rationalism vs Romanticism

  4. Romanticism and the Imagination • Feeling and intuition over reason • The imagination can understand truths that the rational mind can not reach • Truths • Powerful emotion • Natural unspoiled beauty • Spontaneity • Poetry was the highest embodiment of imagination

  5. The Quest for Truth • Searched exotic settings • Removed from grimy and noisy industrial age • Contemplated the natural world until the dull reality fell away to reveal underlying beauty and truth • Intellectual and emotional awakening

  6. A new Hero • European image of American= unsophisticated and uncivilized • Romantic novelists believed virtue was in American innocence, not in European sophistication

  7. Worldly Educated Sophisticated Bent on making a place for himself in civilization Youthful Innocent Intuitive Close to nature Rationalist hero vs Romantic hero

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