Goethe's concept of the daemonic : after the ancients / / Angus Nicholls

• Autore: Nicholls Angus (Angus James), <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 831/.6
• Soggetto topico: German literature - 18th century - Classical influences; German literature - 19th century - Classical influences; Genius in literature; Subjectivity in literature
• Classificazione: GK 4211
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Goethe's concept of the daemonic
• ISBN: 1-281-94930-2; 9786611949303; 1-57113-674-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008437403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)