Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and philosophy /
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and philosophy /
edited by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge and Allen C. Speight.
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.
"Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre served as a touchstone for major philosophical and literary figures of his age (including, among many others, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Novalis). But it has received far less attention in both disciplines (especially in English-language scholarship) than either Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther or Elective Affinities. This volume takes up the question of what Goethe's long and rather complicated novel is doing and how it engages with problems and themes of human life more generally, including issues of individuality, development, and authority; aesthetic formation and narrative (and human) contingency; gender, sexuality, and marriage; about power, institutions, and control"--
9780190859268 9780190859251
2019058201
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.--1749-1832.
PT1982 / .G65 2020
833/.6 / G599
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.
"Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre served as a touchstone for major philosophical and literary figures of his age (including, among many others, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Novalis). But it has received far less attention in both disciplines (especially in English-language scholarship) than either Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther or Elective Affinities. This volume takes up the question of what Goethe's long and rather complicated novel is doing and how it engages with problems and themes of human life more generally, including issues of individuality, development, and authority; aesthetic formation and narrative (and human) contingency; gender, sexuality, and marriage; about power, institutions, and control"--
9780190859268 9780190859251
2019058201
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.--1749-1832.
PT1982 / .G65 2020
833/.6 / G599