Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe

Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics, philosophy, and culture.

List of contents

Introduction
"Über Glaubenssachen filosofieren": Wieland on Reason and Religion
Personal Impersonalism in Herder's Conception of the Afterlife
Clever Priests and the Missions of Moses and Schiller: From Monotheism to the Aesthetic Civilization of the Individual
"Then Say What Your Religion Is": Goethe, Religion, and Faust
Classicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe's "Novelle"
Saint Mary's Two Bodies: Religion and Enlightenment in Kleist
Catholic Conversion and the End of Enlightenment in Religious and Literary Discourses
Sacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin's Madonna as Muse
Leibniz Reception around 1800: Monadic Vitalism and Aesthetic Harmony
"The Magic Formula We All Seek": Spinoza + Fichte = x
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson
• Assisted by: Elisabeth Krimmer (Editor), Elisabeth (Series Editor) Krimmer (Editor), Patricia Anne Simpson (Editor), Professor Patricia Anne (Customer) Simpson (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2013
• EAN: 9781571135612
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-561-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day