Magnificent Rebels with Andrea Wulf

30 Irving Place,New York NY 10003

28 September, 2022

Description

This exhilarating new group biography investigates the remarkable story of a small university town in the 1790s which became the center of one of the most radical intellectual movements in history. Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self brings to life a circle of poets and writers, including Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, and Hegel, who launched the movement known as Romanticism and incited a revolution of ideas that helped transform the world. Their radical notions about free will, the nature of the self, and the relationship of man to nature continue to challenge and astonish us today. It is also a human story of their conflicted relationships, passionate love lives, and struggle for recognition. Andrea Wulf, best-selling author of The Invention of Nature, will give an engaging multimedia presentation of her book, copies of which will be available for purchase from Strand Book Store. Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She is the award-winning author of several books, including Founding Gardeners, Brother Gardeners, and The New York Times best seller The Invention of Nature, which has been published in twenty-seven languages and won fifteen international literary awards. Wulf has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. She’s a member of PEN America Center and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.