Modern bourgeois Romanticism differs from its ancestor by despising sensuality

Evidence

Now the bourgeois philistines have destroyed glam and returned us to their preferred aesthetic mode: Romanticism. The contemporary bourgeois Romantic has realised Romanticism in its most distilled form yet. The socalled Romantic poets, musicians and painters of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century remained sensualists, whereas our contemporary Romantics are defined by their view that sensuality is at best an irrelevance, a distraction from the important business of the expression of subjectivity. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 849

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Romantic imagination rejected Enlightenment rationalism and embraced the subconscious — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 437

Broader Connections

• The Romantic imagination rejected Enlightenment rationalism and embraced the subconscious #expands (0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 437