Love and Death in Goethe: `One and Double'

by Ellis Dye

Goethe, in association with his younger Romantic compatriots the Schlegels, Novalis, Fichte, and Schelling, struggled with the subject-object dichotomy, and tried to bridge the gap between self and other, consciousness and nature. His theory and practice prefigured the Romantics' determination to display and interrogate the linguistic and cultural structures informing their own thinking and modes of representation--what Goethe calls one's "Vorstellungsart."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133003
• ISBN13: 9781571133007
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"