ABSTRACT
This chapter covers another important aspect of the French Revolutionary legacy, the rise of post-war “isms.” It pays particular attention to romanticism, liberalism, and conservatism and shows how each one tried to create a new whole out of a shattered culture. It discusses, among others, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), Eugene Delacroix (1798–1863), Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), E.T.A. Hoffman (1776–1822), Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), Dorothea Schlegel (1764–1839), and Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829).
