This is interesting. I think Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy is excellent on this and traces the eclipse of reason by “feeling” to Rousseau and his latter day descendents. Anyway, the chapter on romanticism is Russell at his best. Russell was born into an era where scientific and material progress was taken for granted and the idea that man was “despoiling the planet” was totally foreign. We need a return to this hard headed rationalism.
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