Elegantly argued claim that the Romantics opened a whole new avenue of philosophy

Review of Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin

This is a splendidly dense introduction to the Romantic Movement. Berlin argues that the Romantics established a new kind of relativism and possibility, forever demolishing the 2000-year search for absolute certainty in philosophy.

When the Romantics emerged, it was at the moment that reason had seemingly reached its apogee in the Enlightenment. With the…