Goethe's concept of the daemonic
Subtitle: after the ancients
By: Angus Nicholls.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Philosophy.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Classical influences.; Genius in literature.; Subjectivity in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancients and their daemons; title: The daemonic in the philosophy of the Sturm und Drang: Hamann and Herder; title: Romanticism and unlimited subjectivity: "Mahomets Gesang"; title: Werther: the pathology of an aesthetic idea; title: Kantian science and the limits of subjectivity; title: Schelling, Naturphilosophie, and "Möchtiges überraschen"; title: After the ancients: Dichtung und Wahrheit and "Urworte. Orphisch"; title: Eckermann, or the daemonic and the political; title: Epilogue: Socrates and the cicadas.