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Heinrich Heine and the Politics of Romanticism
by Daniel Platt
February 2014
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How did the United States, the nation that once put a man on the moon, the nation that built the Hoover Dam and the Tennessee Valley Authority, become a nation that can no longer do these things? How did the world's first constitutional republic become a nation where children take weapons to school and massacre their classmates? Or to put it more generally, why do civilizations decline? How do cultures that were once cultivated, intelligent, and progressive, become barbaric?
The answer, in part, is Romanticism. Romanticism was a school of thought that became fashionable in politics and the arts, beginning especially in the 19th Century, and continuing up through the present day. Lyndon LaRouche has described it as "simply the idea that the acceptance of blind passion, as such, must rule." [FN 1]
Its devastating effect on human creative mentation was subjected to intense scrutiny and ridicule by the German poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), the subject of this report.
If we step back and take the long view of human history, the thing that stands out as essential is the "Renaissance principle": during those brief periods of history in which societies ma
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The Works of Heinrich Heine/Vol. 1/Shakespeare's Maidens and Women
It is a rule with rare exceptions that the more a literary work is inspired with genius, the more necessary it is for us to form a true conception of the habits of thought of the author, his principles or "morals," his excellences or demerits. This is particularly the case with writers who gossip about themselves, who take wild or eccentric flights of fancy, and above all with those who, believing themselves to be perfectly informed or correct, often unconsciously mingle error and prejudices with great truths, and also noble inspirations, and the combination of great learning with the charm of poetry. Henry Heine was pre-eminently such a writer, and the work on Shakespeare's "Maidens and Women" by him, which is here presented in English, deserves careful study, as being from this point of view the most characteristic of all his works. It is a small book, it bears intrinsic evidence of having been a pièce de manufacture recklessly put together, and it is professedly merely "written up" to supply the letterpress for a series of engravings. The fact that all the female characters of the comedies of Shakespeare are only illustrated by quotations, would seem to indicate either tha