Full Idea
Foucault was right to say that Jena in the 1790s was the arena where the fundamental interests in modern Western culture suddenly had their breakthrough.
Gist of Idea
Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s
Source
Lars Svendsen (A Philosophy of Boredom [2005], Ch.2)
Book Reference
Svendsen,Lars: 'A Philosophy of Boredom' [Reaktion Books 2005], p.60
A Reaction
[Hölderlin, Novalis, Tieck, Schlegel, based on Kant and Fichte] Romanticism seems to have been born then. Is that the essence of modernism? Foucault and his pals are hoping to destroy the Enlightenment by ignoring it, but that is modern too.