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The Quest of the Absolute: Birth and Decline of European Romanticism By Louis Dupré, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, 376 pp., ISBN 978-0-268-02616-5, $36.00.
This volume, a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis of the spiritual revolution known as Romanticism, completes Louis Dupré's trilogy on European culture in the modern era. His two previous studies focused on Renaissance Humanism and the Enlightenment. The Quest of the Absolute describes the Romantic spirit as an attempt to break through the limits of finitude toward an all-inclusive absolute, a search...