Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe – A Contribution to the History…
Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of GoetheA Contribution to the History of Ideas\nAuthor(s): Paul E. Kerry\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781571134073, 978-1571134073\nSynopsis\nShows Goethe, the most famous of German writers, as a child of the Enlightenment.\n\nThroughout his oeuvre Goethe invokes the writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment: Voltaire and Goldsmith, Sterne and Bayle, Beccaria and Franklin. And he does not merely reference them: their ideas make up the salt of his most acclaimed works. Like Hume before him, Goethe takes up the topic of suicide, but in a best-selling novel, Werther; the beating heart of Faust I is the fate of a woman who commits infanticide, a burning social issue ofhis age; in an article for a popular journal Goethe takes up the cause of Kant and Penn, who wrote treatises on how to establish peace in Europe. In another essay Goethe calls for reconciliation between Ger.
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