German nationalism begins as a Romantic response to French domination: culture creates the people, and the people must protect, enhance, and spread that culture through the nation-state.
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Romanticism
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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Jiang summarizes the Enlightenment/Romanticism split as science versus nature, reason versus emotion, liberty versus will and struggle, and French general will versus German Geist.
Jiang claims that Western industrialization transformed the whole society and therefore generated deep cultural and philosophical backlash, but Chinese industrialization did not produce the same pattern because it was not an organic civilizational process.
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"that's a great question and this is my understanding in the West industrialization was a all society movement and it profound it brought tremendous..."
"...response to French nationalism okay so now they're being influenced by Romanticism and in Romanticism their response is is this there is a culture..."
"it's the Germans who first proposed this idea but then it spreads to Italy as well okay so these are two extremely different interpretations..."
"Let them be bleached and dried out by many centuries of storms, deluges, and blazing sun. The animating breath of the spiritual world has..."
"All right. So main difference between French nationalism and German nationalism. Okay? Separation of church and state. For the Germans, the nation is the..."
"...something like this early in talks on the rise of Germany, romanticism, et cetera. Yeah."
"...I would even say I'm Japan has had a kind of romanticism around nature that's I mean think of the Ghibli movies it says..."
"...two different sources the first is the Enlightenment the second is Romanticism okay so to summarize to recap the Enlightenment is this major intellectual..."
"right Romanticism is something we didn't really talk that much about but Romanticism is a direct direct response to the problems created by Romanticism..."
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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