Goethe S Poetry And The Philosophy Of Nature

Author : Regina Sachers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351565295

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Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature by Regina Sachers Pdf

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection Gott und Welt is Goethe's poetic contribution to this conflict, in which an alternative to orthodox Christianity was being sought. Following the collection's various stages of composition and publication, this study offers new readings of some of Goethe's best known poems: 'Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen', 'Dauer im Wechsel', 'Urworte. Orphisch' and 'Wiederfinden'. Sachers shows that Gott und Welt is the long poem on nature which Goethe attempted to write for the last third of his life. As such it represents Goethe's unique answers to the intellectual challenges posed by the dawning age of science. Regina Sachers is Lecturer in German at Exeter College, Oxford.

Author : Marion Vienna Churchill Dudley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4084657

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Poetry and Philosophy of Goethe by Marion Vienna Churchill Dudley Pdf

Author : Astrida Orle Tantillo
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : William S. Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319912929

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Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature by William S. Davis Pdf

This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Near the end of the eighteenth century, poets and thinkers reinvented Greece as a site of aesthetic and ontological wholeness, a move that corresponded with a refiguring of nature as a dynamically interconnected web in which each part is linked to the living whole. This vision of a vibrant materiality that allows us to become “one with all that lives,” along with a Romantic version of Hellenism that wished to reassemble the broken fragments of an imaginary Greece as both site and symbol of this all-unity, functioned as a two-pronged response to subjective anxiety that arose in the wake of Kant and Fichte. The result is a form of resistance to an idealism that appeared to leave little room for a world of beauty, love, and nature beyond the self.

Author : Friedrich Bruns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258025256

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Goethe's Poems and Aphorisms by Friedrich Bruns Pdf

Author : Peter Salm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015004047737

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The Poem as Plant by Peter Salm Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020583940

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Poetry And Philosophy Of Goethe by Anonymous Pdf

This collection of the poetry and philosophical writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is an essential resource for anyone interested in the life and work of this towering figure of German literature. Featuring some of Goethe's most famous poems, including 'Faust' and 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', as well as his key philosophical writings, this book provides a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most influential figures of the Romantic era. 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 : George Santayana
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781435142237

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Three Philosophical Poets by George Santayana Pdf

“I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar….My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has for writing about the spring. They have attracted me; they have moved me to reflection; they have revealed to me certain aspects of nature and of philosophy which I am prompted by mere sincerity to express, if anybody seems interested or willing to listen.” The modesty exhibited in the above disclaimer—from Santayana’s preface to Three Philosophical Poets—should be viewed in the context of the author’s extraordinary impact as a philosopher and teacher. The Sense of Beauty has claim to being the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States; the multivolume The Life of Reason is arguably the first extended analysis of pragmatism anywhere. Among Santayana’s many well-known Harvard students, Wallace Stevens has acknowledged a clear debt to his work. Based on a course Santayana taught at Harvard, Three Philosophical Poets was first delivered to the public as a series of lectures at Columbia University in 1910. Santayana’s lifelong, learned meditation on the relationship between philosophy and art is apparent. (Santayana’s own prose style has long been considered among the most eloquent in all of philosophy.) Here, he discusses the chief phases of European philosophy—naturalism, supernaturalism, and romanticism—as they are set forth and epitomized by the works of Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, respectively. Praise for Three Philosophical Poets and its author “[A] brilliant and admirable little book.” —T. S. Eliot “The exquisite and memorable way in which he has always said things has given so much delight that we accept what he says as we accept our own civilization. His pages are part of the douceur de vivre.” —Wallace Stevens “Santayana was the real excitement for me at Harvard, especially Three PhilosophicalPoets….It really fixed my view of what poetry should ultimately be.” —Conrad Aiken

Author : Charles Sherrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107652675

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Goethe on Nature and on Science by Charles Sherrington Pdf

First published in 1949, this book presents a concise discussion of Goethe's relationship with science and nature.

Author : Charles Montague Bakewell,Thomas Davidson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021457965

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The Philosophy of Goethe's Faust; by Charles Montague Bakewell,Thomas Davidson Pdf

This book is a critical analysis of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's most famous work, Faust. Davidson delves into the philosophical themes of the play such as the nature of good and evil, human desire, and redemption. Anyone interested in German literature or philosophy will find this book to be a compelling read. 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 : Robert J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Paul Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015000971565

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Goethe by Paul Carus Pdf

Author : Edwin H. Zeydel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258084090

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Goethe, the Lyrist by Edwin H. Zeydel Pdf

Facing The Originals With A Biographical Introduction. With An Appendix University Of North Carolina Studies In The Germanic Languages And Literatures, No. 16.

Author : Julie D. Prandi
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081918991X

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Dare to be Happy! by Julie D. Prandi Pdf

This book explores Goethe's ethics of happiness and the role of resignation within them. Prandi has carefully separated autobiographical material from literary expository of these themes in order to clarify the misunderstanding that has resulted from relying on Goethe's fictional works to document his personal ethical convictions. The book aims in part at working out in detail the usefulness of Spinoza's Ethics in evaluating ethical views expressed in poetry and fiction; and in part at correcting erroneous and confused ideas about Goethean resignation. Prandi studies the 'natural morality' Goethe developed and practiced, using Lucretius and Spinoza as models of influence. All three define the good as what makes people rationally happy; each has his own resignation model to offer. From a deep analysis of views on happiness and resignation, the author's discussion leads to some surprising new conclusions.

Author : David Seamon,Arthur Zajonc
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791436829

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Goethe's Way of Science by David Seamon,Arthur Zajonc Pdf

Examines Goethe's neglected but sizable body of scientific work, considers the philosophical foundations of his approach, and applies his method to the real world of nature.