Lesson 78 of 84 · Enlightenment
⭐ 30 XPenlightenment: Lesson 78
The Enlightenment also had a profound impact on the arts and literature, promoting the idea that reason and emotion could coexist in creative expression.
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The Enlightenment also had a profound impact on the arts and literature, promoting the idea that reason and emotion could coexist in creative expression. Writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau emphasized the importance of feelings and individual experience, arguing that society should reflect the general will of the people. This shift in thought led to new forms of literature and art that celebrated human emotion and the natural world, diverging from the rigid structures of previous artistic movements. This blending of reason and emotion during the Enlightenment contributed to the development of Romanticism in the late 18th century.
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Rousseau argued for the importance of individual experience in society.
The Enlightenment influenced new forms of literature and art.
This period set the stage for the Romanticism movement.
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