Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic
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Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)


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The first book to examine Goethe's writings on the daemonic in relation to both Classical philosophy and German Idealism. 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 Hamannand 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 Lukács, 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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction The Ancients and Their Daemons The Daemonic in the Philosophy of the Sturm und Drang: Hamann and Herder Romanticism and Unlimited Subjectivity: "Mahomets Gesang" Werther: The Pathology of an Aesthetic Idea Kantian Science and the Limits of Subjectivity Schelling, Naturphilosophie, and "Mächtiges Überraschen" After the Ancients: Dichtung und Wahrheit and "Urworte. Orphisch" Eckermann, or the Daemonic and the Political Epilogue: Socrates and the Cicadas

About the Author :
ANGUS NICHOLLS is Professor of German at Queen Mary University of London.

Review :
Nicholls's excellent monograph must surely be the most comprehensive and the most analytic discussion of the daemonic to date....Nicholls has provided a study that is...truly inspiring. Nicholls outlines with unusual erudition and broad knowledge of the subject matter the tension between the subjective and objective in Goethe's concept of the demonic. [A] well-thought out and well-written book. Nicholls is able to summarize the vast corpus of Goethe scholarship, while at the same time offering new interpretations of several well-known works. Nicholls argues that the daemonic is not simply of bibliographical significance but was a philosophical concern for Goethe which he brought to bear on a range of contemporary debates.... [T]he concept of the daemonic deserves attention in our time when rationality is in crisis. In this solidly researched book, which represents a significant contribution to our understanding of `Goethe's concept of the daemonic,' Nicholls offers the reader many stimulating insights and viewpoints. The story of Goethe's turn from the Geniezeit to classicism has been told many times before, but seldom in such philosophical detail or with such a range of references to European intellectual history. ...Nicholls's intelligent and deeply researched book opens new windows onto Goethe's philosophical return to the daemonic throughout his works. It is a major contribution to scholarship, and will doubtless inspire new readings of individual works as well as of the dynamic links in Goethe between philosophy, science, literature, and aesthetics. Nicholls's intelligent and deeply researched book opens new windows onto Goethe's philosophical return to the daemonic throughout his works. It is a major contribution to scholarship, and will doubtless inspire new readings of individual works..


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781571133076
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Camden House Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 325
  • Series Title: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
  • Weight: 698 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1571133070
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: After the Ancients
  • Width: 152 mm


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