Sueños de la razón

The first volume of a chronicle meant to review the nineteenth century year by year, its events, ideas, moods and feelings. Because of the old dispute over which year opens a century, it begins with both 1799 and 1800, and its unnamed narrator may know nothing after 31 December 1800. It opens with Napoleon failing at Acre and follows threads chosen by interest rather than completeness: Kant and his readers, the circles where Romanticism and Germany were born, Fichte, Goethe and Schlegel, Bentham's Panopticon, the loves of Madame de Staël and her quarrel with Napoleon, Humboldt's scientific journeys, Haydn's Creation, Jean Paul's tale of Christ returning before children, astronomy since Newton, and Sade, while making room for Spanish America.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

278 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2015 by Ediciones Era

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9786074454185 (original)