Six Lectures by Sir Isaiah Berlin
Given at the National Gallery ot Art in Washington, sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation
2: The First .Attack on Enlightenment
Professor Berlin demonstrates that. in order to find out what Romanticism-' this enormous revolution in human consciousness '— fundamentally was, it is necessary first to examine by historical method the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and the views of Fontenelle. Voltaire. Montesquieu: and then tu examine the onslaught upon it made by Hume and above all by the German Johann Georg Hamann.
Second broadcast
3-The True Fathers of Romanticism: October 17