Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. Jena became the place for the young and intellectually curious, the site of a new departure, of philosophical disruption. A work of intellectual history, Peter Neumann's "Jena 1800" is colorful and passionate, informative and intimate - as fresh and full of surprises as its subjects.