Exam 3

-Faust as a Romantic figure

-focued on gaining knowledge and never felt satisfied with the amount of knowledge that he had

-common language

-anti-imperialism

-germans are intelligent

-cross-regional=goes across all of the small states

-germans share a common past (new interest in history)

-important time for reform in politics, art, and law

-modernized school system

-direct resistance to French

-extreme nationalism

-began in 1813

-fighting all Europe against Napoleon

-let to birth of gorrilla warfare

-Napoleon thought nationalism could be contained and was not worried

-after Napoleon had been defeated

-Congress of Vienna

-return to the staus quo before Napoleon

-political order

-"Holy Alliance"=Prussia, Russia, and Austria)

-confederation of German states

-1817-unifaction of Germany as one state

-reaction to Classicsm

-look to medieval times for inspiration, not back to ancient times like classicists

-inspired by France

-creativity allows things to exist that never have, resembling God

-very interested in emotions

-born good and then corrupted by society

-directly opposed Kant's enlightenment views

-reason is fine but it has limits

-personal experience, emotion, fantasy, freedom from the rules of art

-can't ever know everything

-peaceful coexistence in the 1st century

-no discrimination

-during and after the crusades (1096)

-discriminating against them increased morale and decreased boredom

-worsened when crusades went badly

-start of ghettos and identifting clothing

-myth of ritual murder

-myth that Jews killed Christian children

-originated when a child was found dead during passover

-all death of children blamed on Jews

-materialistic

-changing interest called usury (negative connotation)

-charging interest against Catholic religion but not Judism

-complete toleration and treated them like equals

-expelled in 1290, readmitted in 1656 but not as equal citizens

-had to pay special taxes

-1781

-could hold all jobs except political and professors

-Jewish Enlightenment

-conflict between reformers and tradionalists

-Haskalah figures wanted to educate Jews in German language and culture

-Moses Mendelsson

-in the wake of the Congress of Vienna

-Jews had to give up their own culture to assimilate into German culture

-at this time Germaness is realted to blood and Jews are seen as a contamination of their culture

-not just education but morals

-being a productive citizen to society

-Jews expected to have this

-Jews mainly accomplished this but struggled with Sittlichkeit

-respectability

-manners, way you celebrate your religion

-what the Jews lacked

-Jews weren't seen as civilized

-chanced their ritual to seem less primitive and assimilate

-legend that there was a maident who lost her lover and then jumped off of the cliff and killed herself

-written by a Jew

-boatsmen are all distracted by the Loreley

-metaphor for blind Nationalism

-he thinks Germany will get caught up in the wave of Germanness and it will be destructive, just like the boatsmen were distracted by the Loreley and fell off of the ship