Books by Andrea Wulf
Found 2 books
The author is the excellent Andrea Wulf and the subtitle is The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self . The focus is on the German group of thinkers who worked together in or near Jena, including the Schlegels, Novalis, Schiller, Goethe and Schelling, with a later cameo from Hegel. This is one of my favorite books of the year, but note it focuses mostly on their personal stories and not so much on their ideas. Perfect for me, but not the ideal introduction for every reader. And their...
Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World . The best of the various recent books on Humboldt.
1. Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World . Haven’t I read too many recent books about him already? Well, this is the best one and will make my “best of the year” list. Now if we could only have a renaissance of interest in his brother, Wilhelm von Humboldt…