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Author Bell, Matthew, 1964-

Title Goethe's naturalistic anthropology : man and other plants / Matthew Bell
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (x, 346 pages)
Series Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Contents Goethe and the anthropology of the European enlightenment -- Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers -- Weimar anthropology -- Man and other plants -- Empirical psychology
Summary Showing how Goethe protrayed human beings as part of natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment, this book demonstrates that 18th-century anthropological thought provides an essential, hitherto overlooked context for the understanding of Goethe's literary enterprise
Analysis German literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-342) and index
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Subject Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Knowledge -- Anthropology
SUBJECT Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 fast
Subject Anthropology in literature.
Literature and anthropology.
Anthropology
Anthropology in literature
Literature and anthropology
Antropologie.
Form Electronic book
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