sturm und drang
national literary movement in Germany at the end of the 18th century that viewed literature as a storm of one individual's emotions and opposed formalism in thought and society
Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing, or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in
German literature and
music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s in which individual
subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in response to the confines of rationalism imposed by
the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements. The philosopher
Johann Georg Hamann is considered to be the ideologue of Sturm und Drang, and
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a notable proponent of the movement, though he and
Friedrich Schiller ended their period of association with it, initiating what would become
Weimar Classicism.
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Sturm und Drang
Noun
1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
(synonym) turbulence, upheaval
(hypernym) disorder
(hyponym) agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest
(classification) politics, political science, government