This is our review of Peter Neumann's recent book
Jena 1800: Die Republik der freien Geister [Jena 1800: the Republic of free Spirits] (Sielder, 2018) on the literary and philosophical culture of German Romanticism (reissued 2020 as
Sternstunden: Jena 1800 und der Aufbruch in die Moderne).
