Romanticism, alongside Idealism, embodies the essence of the German spirit, yet it has been pushed to the margins during enlightened times. Rüdiger Safranski brings it back to the center for us. He describes Romanticism as an era, highlighting its contemporaries such as Tieck, Novalis, Fichte, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Dorothea Veit, who represent the unleashing of genius, the departure into the boundless, and the joy of experimentation. He narrates the story of the Romantic, which continues to resonate today. It tells of the career of the imaginary and spans from Heine, Richard Wagner, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann to the excitements of the 20th century – the biography of a mindset.