Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology: Man and Other Plants

by Matthew Bell

For many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe has somehow remained separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition. In this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Bell's fresh readings of Goethe's major and lesser-known texts are set against the background of the science and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198158947
• ISBN13: 9780198158943
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"