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3 days ago · Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (French: [an lwiz ʒɛʁmɛn də stal ɔlstajn]; née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël (French: [madam də stal]), was a prominent philosopher, woman of letters, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual
3 days ago · For Goethe, allegory and symbol function as poles of the dyad “sinnliche Darstellung” (representation). He introduced the contrasting pair in the second half of the 1790s, in the context of his project for a German classical aesthetics with Friedrich Schiller, his translation of Germaine de Staël’s Essai sur les fictions (Essay on Fiction), his ongoing work on morphology and optics, and ...
May 23, 2024 · This chapter discusses Spinoza’s legacy in modern philosophy of interpretation, especially in the works of Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Germaine de Staël.
May 7, 2024 · At the heart of Paris's intellectual movement, Germaine de Staël was a figure like no other. Passionate, fiercely intelligent and as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics, she helped write the 1791 Constitution at the salon in which she entertained the great thinkers of the age.
May 7, 2024 · Most significant, perhaps, is his investigation of Gluck’s position in the literary world, tracing threads of reception history from well-known writings of Germaine de Staël-Holstein (1766–1817), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), and George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, 1804–76), to lesser-known works of Jules Janin ...
May 21, 2024 · Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution.
- Margaret Schaus
- 2019
May 6, 2024 · In Paris, her friendship with Germaine de Staël, who had become the patron and literary companion of A.W. Schlegel, deepened. It was probably through de Staël’s husband, a Swedish count, that the Schlegels were granted a title of nobility in the Swedish Court, becoming the von Schlegels.
