Andrea Wulf

Two more reviews in Air Mail and the Literary Review

“A very readable, stimulating and entertaining survey of a group of writers who deserve to be better known in the Anglophone world” – Literary Review

“Andrea Wulf ’s breathless, sprawling narrative vividly illustrates what it was like to live in Jena … a vaulting achievement” – Air Mail (click here for Air Mail review)

 

New York Times: "An 18th-Century Philosopher to Get Us Through the Climate Crisis"

Here is an article that I wrote in New York Times about Schelling and how his philosophy of oneness is still very relevant today.

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Atlantic: Where Our Sense of Self Comes From

And here is an article I wrote for The Atlantic about Fichte and our modern self.

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Download Atlantic Article 11.09.2022

The Observer: Review "Magnificent Rebels"

“Exhilarating book illuminates a group of extraordinary thinkers … this is indeed an electrifying book, in its illuminated portraits, its dynamic narrative and its sparking ideas. Wulf writes clear, flowing prose, which is a pleasure to read. It’s informed by scholarship without being bogged down by jargon. Her book begins with an autobiographical prologue, explaining how, as the impulsive child of progressive parents, she chose to leave school early, rather than going to university, and became a single mother at a young age, learning in the process to balance free-spiritedness and responsibility. This introduction is appropriate, because her experience mirrors that of the woman at the heart of the story, Caroline Schlegel” – The Observer

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Times Literary Supplement: Review "Magnificent Rebels"

“A vivid portrait of the German coterie who launched Romanticism… Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels is an ambitious, engaging and effusive account … Wulf is excellent at this kind of descriptive prose, evoking the sights and smells of the city with an almost classical enargia. We feel the excitement of living through the period alongside her vivid characters … Wulf’s book reads as much like a novel as an intellectual biography … It is a considerable achievement” – Times Literary Supplement

Financial Times: Review "Magnificent Rebels"

“Wulf’s wonderful new book … Magnificent Rebels recreates the shining moment, between roughly 1794 and 1806, when these figures congregated in Jena  … In a gripping account of what she calls the “Jena Set” (which was intellectually and emotionally as complex as the Bloomsbury Group), Wulf brings the dramatis personae compellingly to life” – Financial Times

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Daily Telegraph: Review "Magnificent Rebels"

And a lovely review in Daily Telegraph:

“With narrative verve buttressed by scrupulous research, Andrea Wulf has tracked this history in unfailingly lucid fashion … Avoiding metaphysical warrens and blind alleys, Wulf keeps a firm grasp on this broader historical context as well as the narrower intellectual controversies, but her primary interest is the personal interaction of a set of supremely intelligent men and women whose intense friendships and feuds, collaborations and affairs, can aptly be compared to that of the Bloomsbury Group or the Parisian modernists. … [Wulf’s] book has an irresistible panache marvellously appropriate to the story of these high-pitched personalities, and it is rich in telling anecdotes” 

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