ISN’T IT ROMANTIC?: Suicide, Homicide, Terrorism and Romanticism
This is definitely topical, thank you for introducing the subject.
Yet I would urge you not to try to pigeonhole the Romantic movement as merely a reaction to the Enlightenment or as some 19th C. Pandora’s Box which unleashed the storm and stress of 20th C. German national-socialism. For those of us
Those who are intellectually lazy enough to romanticize left-wing terrorism (as I once was) know precious little about a high intellectual achievement that was Romanticism: to “romanticize” is closer to “sentimentalize” than it is to Romanticism.
Susan Sontag called one of her essays, “Fascinating Fascism.” Maybe it’s time for a discussion along the lines of “Fascinating Terrorism”?
I began to scratch the surface of this subject in a recent post, “My Kampf…”.
