Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 313 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1571136746
,
9781571136749
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index
,
The ancients and their daemonsThe 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1571133070
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571133076
Additional Edition:
Print version Goethe's concept of the daemonic
Language:
English
Bookmarklink
