The Quest of the AbsoluteThis eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupr's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupr philosophically reflects on its attempts to recapture the past and transform the present in a movement that is partly a return to premodern culture and partly a