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2 days ago · The broad shape of the work's plot is largely based on what Goethe experienced during his time at Wetzlar with Charlotte Buff (1753–1828) and her fiancé, Johann Christian Kestner (1741–1800), as well as the suicide of the Goethe's friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem (1747–1772).
1 day ago · If knowledge seems extrinsic, it is the result of inadequate interpretation of experience; an inadequate hermeneutic of the percept. In the perception that knowledge is extrinsic, I learn something about my cognitive posture and not something about the world towards which I am assuming that posture.
1 day ago · From Italian Journey (1786-1788): Goethe is currently in Rome and is revisiting places he has already seen in previous days. "As my initial amazement changes to a feeling of familiarity, I get a clearer sense of their value. For a profound understanding of what man has created, the soul must first have won its complete freedom."
2 days ago · Significant episodes in Benjamin's life - such as the withdrawal of his Habilitation thesis - have led many commentators to note how the role of 'outsider' dominated his fortunes and writings. One such episode concerns Benjamin's critique of the Stefan George circle, with the publication of his essay on Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities). In view of the fact that Benjamin ...
3 days ago · Own created bibliography: Forget, Bettina: Goethe’s Color Theory: Optics and Visual Poetry. Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 47. 2019.
5 days ago · Spoiler alert! The following story contains major plot details about the series finale of "Eric" (now streaming on Netflix). Benedict Cumberbatch is a monster of a man. In Netflix drama “Eric ...
1 day ago · (Photo: Matthias Thor Brødreskift) Just as “Hamlet” belongs to the English literary legacy or Goethe’s “Faust” belongs to the German soul, so Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” belongs to the Norwegian culture. Exactly 150 years ago, Henrik Ibsen asked the then 31-year-old composer Edvard Grieg to write a suitable musical setting for his dramatic poem in five acts. The premiere took {…}
