German romanticism suffered from its association with the Nazis, but that has thankfully begun to abate over the last few decades. The combination of man and nature, or man in nature, or man as nature is a theme picked up by many philosophers of AI, like Richard Brautigan (3/4)

Friedrich was a German romantic painter, given to naturalism and a certain anti-enlightenment sentiment. The enlightenment was always treated differently in Germany than it had been in France and England, and the tradition emerged in its own way. (2/4)