Goethe's concept of the daemonic : after the ancients

Publication Data

• Title Goethe's concept of the daemonic : after the ancients
• Author Angus Nicholls
• Publisher Camden House
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Columbia, S.C.
• Language English

Contents

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 "Möchtiges überraschen"
After the ancients: Dichtung und Wahrheit and "Urworte. Orphisch"
Eckermann, or the daemonic and the political
Epilogue: Socrates and the cicadas.

Topics

• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 :: Philosophy
• German literature :: 18th century :: Classical influences
• German literature :: 19th century :: Classical influences
• Demonology in literature
• Genius in literature
• Subjectivity in literature

Goethe's concept of the daemonic : after the ancients by Angus Nicholls. ISBN 1571133070. Published by Camden House in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.