Romantyzm i New Age: kontynuacje, podobieństwa, inspiracje
Romaticism and the New Age. Continuities, Analogies, Inspirations

Summary/Abstract: What the article explores is the presence in New Age of ideas central for romanticism: the ideas of organicism, imagination, and temporalism. The author treats their presence in Romanticism as continuation and reinterpretation of ideas characteristic of Western esoterism. Yet, New Age is defined as a continuation of the esoteric tradition subjected to a Romantic reinterpretation and, at the same time, as a response to the criticism of the disenchanted modern civilization. Although New Age takes many different forms (low and high New Age), the source from which it originates are the ideas analyzed in the article. The themes of self-fulfillment, self-cognition, originality, or self-expression, typical for New Age, have Romantic roots and relate to the three analyzed core ideas.

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