Romantic Modernism: Wittgenstein and Heidegger

From the General Introduction to Wittgenstein and Heidegger, edited by Egan, Reynolds, and Wendland, Routledge (2013), p. 17:


…Anthony Rudd’s focus is the fusion of modernism with romanticism. The principal claim of “Wittgenstein and Heidegger as Romantic Modernists” is that both Wittgenstein and Heidegger inherit a romantic vision in which Cartesian dualism is overcome through a “re-enchantment” of the world. Rudd describes how early twentieth-century modernism involved a revival of this romantic outlook, amounting to a romantic modernism, and he contends that Wittgenstein and Heidegger should be seen as its philosophic representatives. He concedes that the romantic vision did have to struggle against countervailing tendencies in both philosophers, but suggests that this conflicted outlook was itself characteristic of the modernist revival of romantic themes.

It strikes me that Rudd, a philosophy professor at St. Olaf College, has got it just right.