Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 180
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Talleyrand represents a strand of the ancient regime, the old nobility that thrives and leads, right through the monstrosity and glory of Empire and the Reaction that follows. Goethe is the literary Talleyrand, the carefully controlled spark of Romanticism, that could be said to spring into flame when Germany is born.
Talleyrand's career spans the Ancien Regime, Revolution and the Empire and the Restoration and the July Monarchy that follows.
This episode follows Roberto Calasso's Talleyrand, and his Goethe too, using various sources for the Congress of Erfurt.
Talleyrand will betray Napoleon, but did he betray France?
Viola, un homme! Is it just kitsch?