Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas - Couverture rigide

Kerry, Paul E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 157113221X ISBN 13 : 9781571132215

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Throughout his oeuvre Goethe invokes the writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment: Voltaire and Goldsmith, Sterne and Bayle, Beccaria and Franklin. And he does not merely reference them: their ideas make up the salt of his most acclaimed works. Like Hume before him, Goethe takes up the topic of suicide, but in a best-selling novel, Werther; the beating heart of Faust I is the fate of a woman who commits infanticide, a burning social issue ofhis age; in an article for a popular journal Goethe takes up the cause of Kant and Penn, who wrote treatises on how to establish peace in Europe. In another essay Goethe calls for reconciliation between Germans who had fought against each other in those same Wars, as well as for worldwide understanding between Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Heathens. Professor Kerry shows that Goethe is a child of the Enlightenment and an innovator of its legacy. To do sohe discusses a chronological swath of Goethe's works, both popular and neglected, and shows how each of them engages Enlightenment concerns. Paul Kerry is associate professor in the Department of History and member of theEuropean Studies faculty at Brigham Young University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 157113221X
• ISBN 13: 9781571132215
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 255
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