The Post-Romantic Syndrome: Reflections on Work, Wealth, and Trade from Adam Müller to Ernst Jünger
Keywords:
history of discoursive formations, Romanticism, post-Romanticism, political economy, social philosophy, community and society, German cultural space, Müller, Adam, Sombart, Werner, Jünger, ErnstAbstract
The article presents an original, innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to intellectual history. It examines the intersections between economic and political thought, social philosophy, and aesthetics and literature that inform a pervasive postromantic discourse on work, wealth and capital spanning the nineteenth century and becoming particularly prominent in the first third of the twentieth century in Germany and Austria.References
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