Krimmer / Simpson Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-879-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 139, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics, philosophy, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krimmer, Elisabeth

Simpson, Patricia Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
"Über Glaubenssachen filosofieren": Wieland on Reason and Religion
Personal Impersonalism in Herder's Conception of the Afterlife
Clever Priests and the Missions of Moses and Schiller: From Monotheism to the Aesthetic Civilization of the Individual
"Then Say What Your Religion Is": Goethe, Religion, and Faust
Classicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe's "Novelle"
Saint Mary's Two Bodies: Religion and Enlightenment in Kleist
Catholic Conversion and the End of Enlightenment in Religious and Literary Discourses
Sacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin's Madonna as Muse
Leibniz Reception around 1800: Monadic Vitalism and Aesthetic Harmony
"The Magic Formula We All Seek": Spinoza + Fichte = x
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Krimmer Elisabeth:
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.Simpson Patricia Anne:
PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.