INTRODUCTION: RADICAL AND MODERATE STURM UND DRANG.

The article focuses on Sturm und Drang movement which is contrast between avant-garde art and revolutionary politics: ‘the contradiction of the radical movement. It mentions tension between the moderate and radical features of the Sturm und Drang evokes Jonathan Israel's provocative thesis that the European Enlightenment can be divided into two clearly distinguishable camps. It also mentions Israel's binary of radical and moderate Enlightenment.