Key Concept 3.6
European ideas and culture expressed a tension between objectivity and scientific realism on one hand, and subjectivity and individual expression on the other.
Romanticism broke with neoclassical forms of artistic representation and with rationalism, placing more emphasis on intuition and emotion.
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Following the Revolutions of 1848, Europe turned toward a realist and materialist worldview.
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A new relativism in values and the loss of confidence in the objectivity of knowledge led to modernism in intellectual and cultural life.
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