[254] we call romanticism. Romanticism,^a in the genuine sense in which it appears in the European and British literature of the Romantics, is an attempt to overcome the subject-object structure of reality, to go behind it and beyond it, and to find again the creative man who has created the world of abstractions. For this reason, the romantic philosophers were very critical of the Enlighten- ment,^b with its attempt to analyze the world and the beginning industrial society with ITS attempt to reunite the elements of reality for the sake of control. But romanticism went ahead with a speed which was not yet justified. And so the reaction of the subject-object structure of reality in the 19th century was very drastic, was so drastic that the romantic philosophy, including the romantic doctrine of man^c, became a matter of more name-calling than scientific refutation. The result was that in the second half of the 19th century, there was a complete victory of the subject-object structure of dealing with, of encountering, reality, and of a complete self-loss as man who has created these abstractions into which he was divided. It was one of the greatest catastrophes of the Odyssey ^dwhich happened in the middle of the 19th century and determined that in this century, certainly, man would not find [his way] back to himself as the creative ground of his creations---of course, that was the problem and the attempt. Since the beginning of the 20th century, developments took place in which, so to speak, Odysseus^e put on his sails again to return home. And we are in the midst of these attempts. We participate in them and we also see their dangers. We criticize them, but we cannot simply negate them.