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Author | : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 1051 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691181047 |
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First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.
Author | : Rüdiger Safranski |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2017-05-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0871404915 |
Download Goethe: Life as a Work of Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.
Author | : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 1256 |
Release | : 2000-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contains a brief biography of Goethe, a collection of some of his best-known works, and a sampling of his personal correspondence. Includes his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems. The Sorrows of Young Werther is a story of self-destructive love that made its author a celebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance and desire, continues in his controversial novel probing the institution of marriage, Elective Affinities. The cosmic drama of Faust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in the author's old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the effect of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner. Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth Mayer.
Author | : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0141939184 |
Download Maxims and Reflections Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.
Author | : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1872 |
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Author | : Rudolf Steiner |
Publisher | : SteinerBooks |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0880109335 |
Download Nature's Open Secret Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At the young age of twenty-one, Rudolf Steiner was chosen to edit Goethe's scientific writings for the principle Geothe edition of his time. Goethe's literary genius was universally acknowledged; it was Steiner's task to understand and comment on Goethe's scientific achievements. Steiner recognized the significance of Goethe's work with nature and his epistemology, and here began Steiner's own training in epistemology and spiritual science. This collection of Steiner's introductions to Goethe's works re-visions the meaning of knowledge and how we attain it. Goethe had discovered how thinking could be applied to organic nature and that this experience requires not just rational concepts but a whole new way of perceiving. In an age when science and technology have been linked to great catastrophes, many are looking for new ways to interact with nature. With a fundamental declaration of the interpenetration of our consciousness and the world around us, Steiner shows how Goethe's approach points the way to a more compassionate and intimate involvement with nature.
Author | : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | : Gingko Library |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1909942413 |
Download West-Eastern Divan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. In order to preserve the work’s original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary, the “Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan.” This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.
Author | : David Seamon |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1998-04-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791436820 |
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Examines Goethe's neglected but sizable body of scientific work, considers the philosophical foundations of his approach, and applies his method to the real world of nature.
Author | : John Armstrong |
Publisher | : Allan Lane |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Love, Life, Goethe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.
Author | : Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781017373493 |
Download Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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