Goethe Life As A Work Of Art

Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871404916

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Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rüdiger Safranski Pdf

This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.

Author : Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781412003391

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Goethe's Art of Living by Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley Pdf

Goethe researcher Katharine Mommsen draws the reader into the fascinating life of Germany's greatest literary genius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). We discover how ordinary items such as the food we eat or the beverages we drink, and everyday activities like hiking, ice-skating, horseback riding, dancing the waltz, and music-making acquire fresh meaning within Goethe's own pantheistic life philosophy. He directed his wisdom toward keeping body and soul healthy, lively, focused, and strong as a basis for a fuller life - for him it became an essential part of the poet's worldly gospel. This book which is composed around hundreds of excerpts from Goethe's works, correspondences and conversations transcends biography, and shows us the poet's art of living in its richness in wit and wisdom, goodness, and love for humanity.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691187174

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Goethe, Volume 3 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On Gothic Architecture," "On the Laocoon Group," and "Shakespeare: A Tribute." Several works in this collection appear for the first time unabridged and in fresh translations.

Author : G. H. Lewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00084748

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The life and works of Goethe by G. H. Lewes Pdf

Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : London : Smith, Elder
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : WISC:89094737418

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The Story of Goethe's Life by George Henry Lewes Pdf

The Story of Goethe'S Life by George Lewes Henry, first published in 1873, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752301564

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The Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1051 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691181042

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The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.

Author : Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429860997

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Goethe’s Path to Creativity by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla Pdf

Goethe’s Path to Creativity provides a comprehensive psycho-biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a giant of modern German and European literary, political, and scientific history. The book brings this influential work by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla to the English language for the first time in a newly elaborated edition. Goethe’s path to creativity was difficult and beset by a multitude of crises, beginning with his birth, which was so difficult that he was initially not thought to have survived it, and ending with an infatuation that left him, at the age of 74, toying with the same kind of suicidal thoughts he had entertained as a 20-year-old. Throughout his long life, he suffered bitter disappointments and was subject to severe mood swings. Despite being a gifted child, a widely recognized poet, and an influential scientist and politician, he spent his entire life loving and suffering; nonetheless, he had the exceptional ability to endure emotional pain and to transform his sufferings creatively. The way in which he mined his passions for creative impulses continues to inspire modern readers. Readers can apply the lessons they have learned from his life and use Goethe’s strategies for their own creative art of living. Goethe’s Path to Creativity: A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician, Scientist and Poet will be of great interest to all engaged in the fields of creativity, literature, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, and personal growth.

Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000086561

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The Life and Works of Goethe by George Henry Lewes Pdf

Author : Robert J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226712185

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The Romantic Conception of Life by Robert J. Richards Pdf

"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.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Art
ISBN : OXFORD:N10276519

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Essays on Art by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520039963

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Goethe on Art by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Artists
ISBN : UCAL:C2606731

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The life of Goethe, by H. H. Boyesen. Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : John Armstrong
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004836603

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Love, Life, Goethe by John Armstrong Pdf

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.

Author : Jeremy Adler
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789142532

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Jeremy Adler Pdf

This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe’s major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust, Jeremy Adler also provides many original readings of Goethe’s poetry, beginning with the poems written in his early youth. Alongside Goethe’s work, Adler analyzes the incidents of his life, including his love affairs and his meetings with the luminaries of his age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte. Uniquely, Adler also shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest in literature, science, philosophy, law, and many other fields became important for a wide range of later scientists and thinkers. Among the figures he influenced were Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns—a maker of modernity.