Jena 1800

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As part of the exhibition “incremental abstractions”, Peter Neumann reads from his new book “Jena 1800” and other texts.

Jena 1800: With the ideas of the French Revolution, not only the political conditions in Europe are shaken. An entire generation of young poets and philosophers decides to rethink the world. The leading minds – among them the Schlegel brothers with their wives, the philosopher Schelling and the poet Novalis – meet in the Thuringian university town on the Saale to establish a “republic of free spirits”. They not only questioned social traditions, they also revolutionised our understanding of freedom and reality with their view of the individual and nature – until today.
In a colourful and passionate way, Peter Neumann tells of this unusual community of thinkers that prepared nothing less than the intellectual dawn of modernity.

“The 31-year-old Jena philosopher and poet uses the circle of friends to unfold a racy and colourful intellectual panorama of the time.”, DIE ZEIT, Book Fair Supplement, Adam Soboczynski

Peter Neumann, born in 1987, lives as a freelance writer in Weimar and teaches philosophy with a focus on German Idealism at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

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