A History of Britain (episode12/15, part1/6)

Forces of nature - Covering 1780 - 1832. Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the "romantic generation" also discovered the plight of the common man, turning nature into a revolutionary force.

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[wanker4761]

Rousseau was a narcissistic, anti enlightenment platonist nut who talked to imaginary Roman soldiers and whose ideas ruined the revolution and led the French from a royal dictator to a military one. God I hate him. One of the fathers of totalitarianism in the west.

[neil73]

Many of the enlightenment were, in modern terms, smackheads. Nevertheless, their work still continues to be taught in English lessons all around the world. The body of work left by the modern classic era cannot be understated. Although Rousseau, Kant and Locke had their flaws, they were the 'media' of that age, and gave way to an entire new inspiration in terms of art, literature and poetry.

[wanker4761]

Rousseau was a narcissistic anti enlightenment Platonist nut who talked to non existent Roman soldiers ans whose ideas wrecked the revolution and led the French from a royal dictator to a military one. How I hate him!