| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
|
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
|
| Contents |
The ancients and their daemons -- The daemonic in the philosophy of the Sturm und Drang: Hamann and Herder -- Romanticism and unlimited subjectivity: "Mahomets Gesang" -- Werther: the pathology of an aesthetic idea -- Kantian science and the limits of subjectivity -- Schelling, Naturphilosophie, and "Mächtiges überraschen" -- After the ancients: Dichtung und Wahrheit and "Urworte. Orphisch" -- Eckermann, or the daemonic and the political -- Epilogue: Socrates and the cicadas |
| Summary |
For Plato, the daemonic is a sensibility that brings individuals into contact with divine knowledge; Socrates was also inspired by a 'divine voice' known as his 'daimonion.' Goethe was introduced to this ancient concept by Hamann and Herder, who associated it with the aesthetic category of genius. This book shows how the young Goethe depicted the idea of daemonic genius in works of the Storm and Stress period, before exploring the daemonic in a series of later poetic and autobiographical works. Reading Goethe's works on the daemonic through theorists such as Lukács, Benjamin, Gadamer, Adorno, and Blumenberg, Nicholls contends that they contain arguments concerning reason, nature, and subjectivity that are central to both European Romanticism and the Enlightenment. ANGUS NICHOLLS is Claussen-Simon Foundation Research Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Department of German, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Philosophy
|
|
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Classical influences
|
| SUBJECT |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 fast |
| Subject |
German literature -- 18th century -- Classical influences
|
|
German literature -- 19th century -- Classical influences
|
|
Genius in literature.
|
|
Subjectivity in literature.
|
|
POETRY -- Continental European.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
|
|
Genius in literature
|
|
German literature -- Classical influences
|
|
Philosophy
|
|
Subjectivity in literature
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781571136749 |
|
1571136746 |
|
