The Longing for Myth in Germany
Subtitle: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780226899459
Subjects: Myths & mythology; History; History - General History; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; General; Philosophy / General; Historiography; Literature and myth; Myth; National characteristics, Germ; National characteristics, German; Political aspects
First sentence: In the spring of 1796, at the age of twenty-one, Friedrich Schelling left his native Wurttemberg to see the world.