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Goethe Studies is an interdisciplinary field focused on the life, works, and influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a pivotal figure in German literature and philosophy. It encompasses literary analysis, historical context, and the exploration of Goethe's contributions to various disciplines, including science, art, and politics.
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Goethe Studies is an interdisciplinary field focused on the life, works, and influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a pivotal figure in German literature and philosophy. It encompasses literary analysis, historical context, and the exploration of Goethe's contributions to various disciplines, including science, art, and politics.
This special issue of EAP celebrates 25 years of publication and includes 19 invited essays organized in terms of four themes: 1. Place—lived emplacement, place attachment, and environmental design as place making; 2. Nature—the lived... more
This summer/fall 2018 issue of Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology includes the following items: • A “book note” on the recently published 2nd edition of philosopher Jeff Malpas’ groundbreaking Place and Experience: A... more
One of the most significant moments in the development of German idealism is Schelling's break from his mentor Fichte. On account of its significance, there have been numerous studies examining the origin and meaning of this transition in... more
This article investigates the intellectual history of the argument for the antiquity of Ex 34,11–26. In the contemporary debate about pentateuchal theory, a question that remains insufficiently addressed is how and why the idea originally... more
Mémoire présenté par : Erwan MOREAU en vue de l'obtention du diplôme de : MASTER 2 RECHERCHE Domaine : Sciences humaines et sociales Mention : Ethnologie-Sociologie Spécialité : SOCIOLOGIE Préparé sous la direction de M. Jean Bruno... more
Dieser Artikel ist die unveränderte Fassung einer Hauptseminararbeit, die ich während meines Magisterstudiums an der Universität Heidelberg eingereicht habe. Sie wurde mit der Note 1,0 benotet. I. Einleitung: die innere und äußere Natur... more
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A detailed, research-based introduction to the special section of the Goethe-Yearbook 22, 2015, which I co-edited with Luke Fischer. We explicate some of Goethe's most central ideas about nature, and the human relation to/place within... more
In this article, I argue that Goethe’s way of science, understood as a phenomenology of nature, might be one valuable means for fostering a deeper sense of responsibility and care for the natural world. By providing a conceptual and lived... more
An overview of Goethean science as it illustrates an early proto-phenomenology of the natural world.
The paper seeks to interpret the concepts of nature and landscape in some of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt works. Of them, while nature would be considered all of the natural phenomena, landscape is a fragment of... more
Physicist, philosopher, and science educator Henri Bortoft died on December 29, 2012, at his home in England. He was 74 years old. Bortoft’s work has an important conceptual and applied connection to this special issue of Phenomenology +... more
ABSTRACT: "When August, Duke of Weimar, encountered Goethe´s Märchen, which had just been published anonymously in 1792, he send a note to the author, emphatically stating his conviction that “this so-called Fairy Tale must have flown... more
Not only was the story really all about Snape, and not about, say, Harry. It turns out Snape is a key to many things, as is typically the main character in the Bildungsroman tradition. Snape is important because he helps us think about... more
Goethe’nin Faust’u insan zihninin ulaşabileceği ve üretebileceği en büyük mucizelerdendir. Eserin en ilginç ve ilginç olduğu kadar da ele avuca gelmez, dolayısıyla belirlenmesi en zor olan kişiliği Mefisto’dur. Bu karakter genellikle kötü... more
The role of darkness has been overlooked by philosophical theories of color. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colors gives a special metaphysical status to darkness, but his romantic-holistic phenomenology applies its principle to... more
Essay tracing the history of the human fascination with flight in literature and other documentary sources and the desire to achieve human flight through technological experimentation and innovation.
Draft translation by David W. Wood into English of some of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's remarks on mathematics.
Hadrien Rambach, « Goethe’s ring? Study of a paste intaglio of ‘Papirius and his mother’, set in a gold ring », in Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte, vol. 62 (2012), pp. 355-362 "A large gold ring, set with an oval... more
Karl Julius Schröer. "The Natural Scientific Writings of Goethe" (1884), translated by David W. Wood. The following text is Schröer's Foreword to volume one of Rudolf Steiner's edition of Goethe's Natural Scientific Writings. The text... more
Chapter III.2 from "Disziplinäre Dichtung. Philologische Bildung und deutsche Literatur in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Berlin 2013): With the onset of modernity, the study of poetry emerged as a legitimate academic... more
This article investigates the intellectual history of the argument for the antiquity of Exodus 34,11–26. In the contemporary debate about pentateuchal theory, a question that remains insufficiently addressed is how and why the idea... more
The canonized image of Goethe as cosmopolite-poet counts as one of the most significant visions of the author. The production and reproduction of knowledge around the cosmopolitan Goethe is itself a pattern of cultural narration which... more
Goethe, le mythe et la science : Regards croisés dans les littératures européennes COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL 14-15-16 novembre 2018 Université de Haute-Alsace Alors que la récente exposition de la Fondation Martin Bodmer – Genève – a... more
O texto ensaia as noções de natureza e paisagem assimiladas na primeira semana de viagem de Goethe à Itália (de 3 a 10 de setembro de 1786). Nesses primeiros dias do itinerário percorrido ainda em terras germânicas, ambas as categorias... more
1. Faust und Phänomenologie-eine falsche Parallele? In der Ästhetik von Hegel findet sich eine bekannte Stelle, wo Hegel den Goethe-schen Faust als eine " absolute philosophische Tragödie" bezeichnet, als ein Werk, wo " überhaupt die... more
Karl Julius Schröer, "My First Visit to Weimar" (1844), translated from the German by David W. Wood. The original German version of this text can be found in: Erwin Streitfeld, Karl Julius Schröer, Beiträge zur Kenntnis seines Lebens... more
This paper argues that Cassirer's thinking about the relationship between the different symbolic forms is best elucidated via the paradigm of "organic harmony." Although Cassirer did not use the term himself, the harmonious cooperation... more
Commençant par des études géologiques, étudiant ensuite les formes organiques, [Goethe] finit par arriver, au soir d'une longue vie, aux phénomènes sociaux et religieux " (Dilthey) JeanClaude Gens Emblématique dans la culture allemande,... more
This paper should analyse few chosen Polish translations of first part of Faust by J. W. von Goethe. The translations were compared with the original work and with other translations. This paper shows a spectrum of Polish translations... more
Als ein "Gegengewicht im Zeitgeist" bezeichnete der junge Arthur Schopenhauer Goethes Rolle in einem Zeitalter, das auf der anderen Seite maßgeblich durch die Philosophie Immanuel Kants geprägt war. Goethe gehörte auch zu den wenigen... more
The article in Russian deals with August von Platen’s – an outstanding German romantic poet (1796–1835) – search for sources of inspiration, using ‘close reading’ as a basic interpretative method in gender poetics. In this article, for... more
Rich in exclamations and ellipses, Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther inhabits a linguistic space in German that does not immediately lend itself to literal translation. Its first translations into Japanese and Chinese coincided with... more
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und Tieck beginnt im Jahr 1798 und endet am 24. September 1829. In diesen 31 Jahren ist aber die Beziehung zwischen den beiden Dichtern voller Spannungen und Missverständnissen. Man kann nicht einen... more
The work of Walter Benjamin on Goethe's Novel The elective affinities is a masterpiece of literary critics. The first part of this work considers the decadence of marriage as a liberation of mythical forces, the second opposes the form... more
This article examines analogies and differences between the Prometheus' myth of Plato Protagoras and the fifth Act of the Second Part of Goethe's Faust. While Goethe thinks that natural pressure is sufficient and necessary condition to... more
La investigación siguiente se concentra en el artículo de Hans-Georg Gadamer “Prometeo y Pandora”, aparecido originalmente en español en 1949 en el volumen "Goethe. 1749 - 28 de agosto – 1949", editado por la Facultad de Filosofía y... more
in: Birgit Neumann (Hrsg.), Präsenz und Evidenz fremder Dinge im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen 2015, S. 142-162.
Man erfährt wieder bei dieser Gelegenheit, daß eine vollständige Erfahrung die Theorie in sich enthalten muß. Um desto sichrer sind wir, daß wir uns in einer Mitte begegnen, da wir von so vielen Seiten auf die Sache losgehen.
Zusammenfassung-Die Aussagekraft des Begriffes des Bildungsromans steht im Zentrum dieses Artikels und wird anhand wesentlicher Momente der Begriffsbildung beleuchtet. Die Absicht dabei ist aufzuzeigen, dass der Begriff nie in exakt... more
Lorsque le jeune Johann Wolfgang Goethe reçoit des mains de son père la maquette d'un bateau aux formes bizarres, il ne sait pas encore combien ce jouet sera porteur de sens et qu'il permettra d'ajouter au patrimoine intellectuel de... more
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