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Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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At the turn of the 19th century, a small university town in Germany became the beating heart of an intellectual revolution. From philosophers and poets to scientists and playwrights, Jena attracted some of Europe’s brightest minds. Andrea Wulf tells Ellie Cawthorne about how the scandalous lives of these thinkers were as controversial as their ground-breaking ideas. (Ad) Andrea Wulf is the author of Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self (John Murray, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histipad&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.penguinrandomhouse.com%2Fbooks%2F609881%2Fmagnificent Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:30.3

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.

0:56.0

I'm Ellie Cawthorn. At the turn of the 19th century, a small German university town became the beating heart of an intellectual revolution.

1:05.0

From philosophers and poets to scientists and playwrights, Yeana attracted some of Europe's brightest minds,

1:13.7

and their scandalous lives were just as controversial as their groundbreaking ideas.

1:19.3

This cohort of unconventional thinkers is the subject of a new book, Magnificent Rebels,

1:26.0

by Andrea Wolfe. And I spoke to her to find out more. Magnificent Rebels, by Andrea Wolfe. And I spoke to her to find out more.

1:30.2

Magnificent Rebels, it's a group biography, really, of a collection of thinkers, writers,

1:36.4

artists, scientists, based in the German University town of Yenna, the turn of the 19th century.

1:43.3

So could you introduce us to the Jainer set and explain

1:47.4

a little bit about why their ideas were so revolutionary at the time? Maybe I'll start actually

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