Strip this senior of medicare and social security, and you'll create an old guy who knows how to do things, can do without, and who has little to lose.
Romanticism was, for the most part, focused on individualism, not anything that was even remotely communitarian, apart from the countries where it more or less fused with revolutionary nationalism.
The communities were subverted into the individual. They were immediately subverted into the individual; that's how every German idealist, romantic etc envisioned it. Rousseau himself placed state formation by subverting the community into the individual. If you are, e,g., a Pole then you are Polish (the Polish state is yours because it is you — this differs from subjects of kingdoms).
This is a nice concept, but who exactly will drive this movement?
Seniors whose Medicare and Social Security are on the brink of oblivion?
GenZ whose support for Trump has risen since the election, and who worship at the altar of techbros and crypto?
GenX whose children are jobless and parents face economic ruin?
I could keep going.
I don't doubt that a New Romanticism may be what's required, but I truly don't see how we bridge a potential societal collapse with this vision.
Strip this senior of medicare and social security, and you'll create an old guy who knows how to do things, can do without, and who has little to lose.
But your point is valid.
Romanticism was, for the most part, focused on individualism, not anything that was even remotely communitarian, apart from the countries where it more or less fused with revolutionary nationalism.
The communities were subverted into the individual. They were immediately subverted into the individual; that's how every German idealist, romantic etc envisioned it. Rousseau himself placed state formation by subverting the community into the individual. If you are, e,g., a Pole then you are Polish (the Polish state is yours because it is you — this differs from subjects of kingdoms).