Play in the Age of Goethe

Play in the Age of Goethe
Author: Edgar Landgraf
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684482062

The essays in this volume discuss critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play around 1800. They illustrate that, in this time period, the parameters are set that continue to guide our debates about what are good rather than bad games or practices of play.

The Romantic Conception of Life

The Romantic Conception of Life
Author: Robert J. Richards
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2010-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226712184

"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integrating Romantic literature, science, and philosophy with an intimate knowledge of the individuals involved—from Goethe and the brothers Schlegel to Humboldt and Friedrich and Caroline Schelling—Richards demonstrates how their tempestuous lives shaped their ideas as profoundly as their intellectual and cultural heritage. He focuses especially on how Romantic concepts of the self, as well as aesthetic and moral considerations—all tempered by personal relationships—altered scientific representations of nature. Although historians have long considered Romanticism at best a minor tributary to scientific thought, Richards moves it to the center of the main currents of nineteenth-century biology, culminating in the conception of nature that underlies Darwin's evolutionary theory. Uniting the personal and poetic aspects of philosophy and science in a way that the German Romantics themselves would have honored, The Romantic Conception of Life alters how we look at Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology.

Goethe

Goethe
Author: Nicholas Boyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 852
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780192829818

The author of Faust, the best-selling sentimental novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, of exquisite lyric poetry (set to music by Schubert and Mozart), and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, poems, and treatises, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also excelled as an administrator in thecabinet of Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Considered by Nietzsche to have been 'not just a good and great man, but an entire culture', Goethe was as vital a part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German social and political life, as he was its cultural nucleus. However, as this perceptive biography shows, the originality ofhis art lay in his complex distance from his times.

Goethe on Art

Goethe on Art
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520039964

Pretexts for Writing

Pretexts for Writing
Author: Seán M. Williams
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2019-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684480523

"In this incisive, original book, S. Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that era--Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel--in the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature"--

Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe

Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe
Author: Alexander Mathäs
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874130140

"The analyses of poems, narratives, dramas, and critical texts by Moritz, Schiller, Herder, Tieck, Goethe, Lavater, and others shed new light on how progress in the medical, philosophical, and anthropological discourses of the time converge with aesthetic and literary considerations." "The volume illustrates how aspects of Freud's psychology have grown out of notions of subjectivity not confined to the Victorian age, as is often assumed, but with roots in the contradicting values of bourgeois emancipation."--Jacket.

Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010

Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010
Author: John David Pizer
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1571135170

"This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German "author-as-character" fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for the first time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture." -- Book cover.

Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe

Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe
Author: Gerad Gentry
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2024-10-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110751488

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethe’s work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore his impact through ideas of organic and aesthetic formation; methods of biology, reason, becoming, and Bildung; modes of self-conscious comportment to nature, art, and the self; and conceptions of finitude and divinity. This volume underscores the interdisciplinary impact of Goethe’s thought and work. Of particular note is Goethe's unified and non-reductive account of nature, human education, social life, and reason. These contributions shed light on how Goethe's thought furthers the methodological sciences of his day while yielding resources for the grounding of theories of art in principles of idealism as well as imminent critiques of idealism through insights about organic formation and activity. The result is a compelling sense of unity through plurality. Contributors: James Conant, Richard Eldridge, Camilla Flodin, Michael Forster, Gerad Gentry, Keren Gorodeisky, Johannes Haag, Joel Lande, Lara Ostaric, Mattias Pirholt, Anne Pollok, Karin Schutjer, Allen Speight, Joan Steigerwald, Violetta Waibel, David Wellbery.

North German Opera in the Age of Goethe

North German Opera in the Age of Goethe
Author: Thomas Bauman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1985
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521260275

This book is the first study of the development of German opera in northern Germany from the first comic operas of Johann Adam Hiller at Leipzig in 1766 to the end of the century. Intellectually and historically, the period witnessed the flowering of the German stage and German letters. German opera was an inseparable part of the new aspirations of the German stage during the Enlightenment. Thomas Bauman stresses the vital role of the mixed repertories of German companies in effecting changes in the genre. North German opera began as a basically literary genre. It then changed dramatically in response to two major trends: first, the contact with the serious elements and styles of tragedy and secondly, the triumph on German stages of Italian, French, and Viennese comic operas. The book is generously illustrated with music examples. There is also a complete catalogue of texts of North German opera: those composed for performance and unset published librettos both cross-indexed under the librettists' names.