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Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic

By Angus Nicholls

Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic Philosophy

Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic

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For Plato, the daemonic is a sensibility that brings individuals into contact with divine knowledge; Socrates was also inspired by a "divine voice" known as his "daimonion." Goethe was introduced to this ancient concept by Hamann and Herder, who associated it with the aesthetic category of genius. This book shows how the young Goethe depicted the idea of daemonic genius in works of the Storm and Stress period, before exploring the daemonic in a series of later poetic and autobiographical works. Reading Goethe's works on the daemonic through theorists such as Lukacs, Benjamin, Gadamer, Adorno, and Blumenberg, Nicholls contends that they contain arguments concerning reason, nature, and subjectivity that are central to both European Romanticism and the Enlightenment. Angus Nicholls is Claussen-Simon Foundation Research Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Department of German, Queen Mary, University of London.
Product details
Number of Pages:
326
Release Date:
2006-05-30
Publication Date:
2006-06-01
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1571133070
ISBN13:
9781571133076
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
681 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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