ABSTRACT This paper responds to a question posed by the organizers of the 2019 meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism: how might A. O. Lovejoy’s 1941 essay “The Meaning of Romanticism for the Historian of Ideas” have something new to say now, especially in relation to our current institutional circumstances as Romanticists? I focus on Lovejoy’s treatment of Romantic Eigentümlichkeit, or “diversitarianism,” as a contributing factor in the rise of twentieth-century fascist movements. Pairing Lovejoy’s essay with Rey Chow’s “The Fascist Longings in Our Midst,” I suggest that Romantic-era diversitarianism already exhibited forms of desire that characterize fascism. By way of conclusion, I warn that a fascism at the heart of liberal multiculturalism threatens uncritical efforts to diversify Romanticism.

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浪漫多元主义：问题与承诺

摘要 本文回应了北美浪漫主义研究学会 2019 年会议组织者提出的一个问题：AO Lovejoy 1941 年的文章“浪漫主义对于思想史家的意义”现在如何有新的说法，尤其是关于我们目前作为浪漫主义者的制度环境？我重点关注洛夫乔伊对浪漫主义 Eigentümlichkeit 或“多元化主义”的处理，认为这是 20 世纪法西斯运动兴起的一个促成因素。将 Lovejoy 的文章与 Rey Chow 的“我们中间的法西斯渴望”相结合，我认为浪漫时代的多元化主义已经表现出法西斯主义特有的欲望形式。作为结论，我警告说，作为自由多元文化主义核心的法西斯主义威胁到浪漫主义多样化的不加批判的努力。