Goethe S Path To Creativity

Author : Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 042945953X

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

Author : Claude-Hélène Mayer,Zoltan Kovary
Publisher : Springer
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030169534

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New Trends in Psychobiography by Claude-Hélène Mayer,Zoltan Kovary Pdf

This volume offers insights into contemporary trends and perspectives in psychobiographical research. It applys new theoretical and methodological frameworks and presents discourses on psychobiography from transdisciplinary backgrounds and various socio-cultural contexts, displaying the new state-of-the-art, new trends and themes in psychobiography. The book outlines psychobiography’s outstanding contribution to psychology from 36 internationally reputable authors. It also presents the ideas of five outstanding psychobiographers through interview excerpts. This book is a must for researchers, lecturers and practitioners in the field of psychology and social sciences interested in the use of new psychological theories and methodologies in life-span research.

Author : David B. Richards
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281258

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Goethe's Search for the Muse by David B. Richards Pdf

That Goethe was also a translator is a well-kept secret. However, in this study the main focus lies on these translations. Especially on his five longest and most important ones, such as Diderot’s Le Neveu de Rameau and Cellini’s Vita.Not only will the translations be discussed but – and maybe even more importantly – also will this study try to give an answer to the motivation of Goethe. Why did he devote so much time to these translations? This volume offers a complete new perspective on Goethe and his works.

Author : Claude-Helene Mayer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319596389

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The Life and Creative Works of Paulo Coelho by Claude-Helene Mayer Pdf

This book assesses the life and success of the writer Paulo Coelho, one of the most fascinating and contemporary writers in the world, through new lenses. It applies a positive psychology perspective and contributes to using innovative theories in psychobiographical studies. This study explores the development of holistic wellness (HWM) and faith development (FDT) throughout the writer's life. It presents radical changes in spirituality, self-direction, love and faith across the life span. Further, it analyses the development of Coelho’s relationship with God and the creation of meaningfulness through his belief and writing. This study contributes to a new era of psychobiographical works within the positive psychology framework.

Author : Astrida Orle Tantillo
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822970644

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The Will to Create by Astrida Orle Tantillo Pdf

Better known as a poet and dramatist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was also a learned philosopher and natural scientist. Astrida Orle Tantillo offers the first comprehensive analysis of his natural philosophy, which she contends is rooted in creativity. Tantillo analyzes Goethe's main scientific texts, including his work on physics, botany, comparative anatomy, and metereology. She critically examines his attempts to challenge the basic tenets of Newtonian and Cartesian science and to found a new natural philosophy. In individual chapters devoted to different key principles, she reveals how this natural philosophy—which questions rationalism, the quantitative approach to scientific inquiry, strict gender categories, and the possibility of scientific objectivity—illuminates Goethe's standing as both a precursor and critic of modernity. Tantillo does not presuppose prior knowledge of Goethe or science, and carefully avoids an overreliance on specialized jargon. This makes The Will to Create accessible to a wide audience, including philosophers, historians of science, and literary theorists, as well as general readers.

Author : John A. McCarthy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202152

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Remapping Reality by John A. McCarthy Pdf

This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional “cultures” of science and the humanities by constituting an area of interaction that some have called a “third culture.” By asking questions about three disciplines rather than about just two, as is customary in research, this inquiry breaks new ground and resists easy categorization. It seeks to answer the following questions: What impact has the remapping of reality in scientific terms since the Copernican Revolution through thermodynamics, relativity theory, and quantum mechanics had on the way writers and thinkers conceptualized the place of human culture within the total economy of existence? What influence, on the other hand, have writers and philosophers had on the doing of science and on scientific paradigms of the world? Thirdly, where does humankind fit into the total picture with its uniquely moral nature? In other words, rather than privileging one discipline over another, this study seeks to uncover a common ground for science, ethics, and literary creativity. Throughout this inquiry certain nodal points emerge to bond the argument cogently together and create new meaning. These anchor points are the notion of movement inherent in all forms of existence, the changing concepts of evil in the altered spaces of reality, and the creative impulse critical to the literary work of art as well as to the expanding universe. This ambitious undertaking is unified through its use of phenomena typical of chaos and complexity theory as so many leitmotifs. While they first emerged to explain natural phenomena at the quantum and cosmic levels, chaos and complexity are equally apt for explaining moral and aesthetic events. Hence, the title “Remapping Reality” extends to the reconfigurations of the three main spheres of human interaction: the physical, the ethical, and the aesthetic or creative.

Author : Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031273841

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The Creative Transformation of Despair, Hate, and Violence by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla Pdf

A creative lifestyle is not a luxury, but a necessary elixir of life. Only with creativity can we overcome despair, hatred and violence, in the world and in ourselves. Using selected examples of exceptionally creative people, Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla encourages us to unleash our own creative and social potential. Readers become acquainted with Madonna and Amy Winehouse, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, and Mick Jagger. Before wandering through their lives and work in the interplay of constructive and destructive forces, they encounter the "Big Five of Creativity": talent, ability, motivation, resilience, favorable environments. The author has theoretically researched their interaction over decades, tested them in practice and drawn the conclusion: The creative transformation of human destructiveness is our chance to lead a fulfilled life in social responsibility.

Author : Rudolf Steiner,John Michael Barnes
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780880109338

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Nature's Open Secret by Rudolf Steiner,John Michael Barnes Pdf

At the young age of twenty-one, Rudolf Steiner was chosen to edit Goethe's scientific writings for the principle Geothe edition of his time. Goethe's literary genius was universally acknowledged; it was Steiner's task to understand and comment on Goethe's scientific achievements. Steiner recognized the significance of Goethe's work with nature and his epistemology, and here began Steiner's own training in epistemology and spiritual science. This collection of Steiner's introductions to Goethe's works re-visions the meaning of knowledge and how we attain it. Goethe had discovered how thinking could be applied to organic nature and that this experience requires not just rational concepts but a whole new way of perceiving. In an age when science and technology have been linked to great catastrophes, many are looking for new ways to interact with nature. With a fundamental declaration of the interpenetration of our consciousness and the world around us, Steiner shows how Goethe's approach points the way to a more compassionate and intimate involvement with nature.

Author : Josef Chytry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520413825

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The Aesthetic State by Josef Chytry Pdf

Shortly after the middle of the eighteenth century a number of thinkers from the German-speaking lands began to create a paradigm drawn from their impressions of a distant historical reality, ancient Athens; added to it a new mode of thought, modern dialectics; and at times even paid homage to the ancient Greek deity Dionysos, to materialize their longing for an ideal. The influence of these forces came to permeate modern German consciousness, deifying the concept and activity of art, reviving the Platonic (and Sanskrit) vision of the cosmos as play and aesthetic creation, and projecting a way of life and labor that would honor not the commodity but the aesthetic product. With rigorous commitment to primary sources and an unflagging critical engagement with the ideas and concrete situations they raise, Josef Chytry provides a comprehensive and extensive study of this central motif in German thought from Winckelmann to Marcuse. Chytry takes "aesthetic state" to signify the concentrated modern intellectual movement to revitalize the radical Hellenic tradition of the polis as the site of a beautiful or good life. The movement begins with the classicism of Winckelmann, Wiemar aesthetic humanism (Wieland, Herder, Goethe), and Schiller's formal theory of the aesthetic state and continues through the idealism of the Swabian dialecticians Holderlin, Hegel, and Schelling and the realism of Marx, Wagner, and Nietzsche. It culminates in the postrealism of Heiddegger, Marcuse, and the aesthetic modernist artist Walter Spies, who initiated a dialogue with the non-Western "theatre state" of the isle of Bali. Josef Chytry concludes that the future speculation on the ideal of an aesthetic state must come to terms with the postrealist themes of ontological anarchy, aesthetic ethos, and theatre state. In a bold effort to stimulate such speculation, Chytry indicates how proponents of the aesthetic state might join forces with Rawlsian political theory to promote further the organon of persuasion that, in his view, serves as the common fount for the ancient, dialectical, and contractarian quests for the polis. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Johann Peter Eckermann,Frédéric Jacob Soret
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1017378533

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Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Johann Peter Eckermann,Frédéric Jacob Soret Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030377525

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Goethes Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : Sufi Path of Love
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781291809534

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Goethe’s Message for the 21st century: "Islam is the rescue for Humanity" by Sufi Path of Love Pdf

Goethe's Message to The 21st century: "Islam is the Rescue for Humanity" "Stupid that everyone in his case Is praising his particular opinion! If Islam means submission to God, We all live and die in Islam." Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Author : Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe,Parke Godwin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020615958

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The Autobiography Of Goethe; Volume 2 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe,Parke Godwin Pdf

This classic literary work captures the essence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's life, work, and philosophy. The book provides a moving and inspiring account of Goethe's journey as a writer, scholar, and thinker, and offers a glimpse into his innermost thoughts and emotions. Filled with rich imagery, poetic language, and vibrant characters, this autobiography is a must-read for lovers of German literature and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Deirdre Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X002190672

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Werther's Goethe and the Game of Literary Creativity by Deirdre Vincent Pdf

"Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werther has received a great deal of attention from the scholarly community over the years. But until now it has never been thoroughly explored or evaluated. Deirdre Vincent examines the two versions of Werther in the context of Goethe's personal life in the intervening years." "Goethe wrote and published the original version of this novel to great acclaim throughout Europe in 1774, drawing on the experience of a traumatic love affair he had had in Wetzlar in 1772. When the revised work was published some thirteen years later, the public saw the second version as little more than a reissuing of the original, and scholars over the past two centuries have persisted in this view. Vincent analyses Goethe's mode of writing and the role that literary creativity played for him during the first ten years or so in Weimar. She reveals how greatly the second version differs from the first, and challenges conventional explanations for the changes." "Vincent sheds new light on Werther and on some of Goethe's other important works written between 1776 and 1789."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved