Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Early Life of Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Autobiography of Goethe; Volume 2
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781022332089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This classic literary work captures the essence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's life, work, and philosophy. The book provides a moving and inspiring account of Goethe's journey as a writer, scholar, and thinker, and offers a glimpse into his innermost thoughts and emotions. Filled with rich imagery, poetic language, and vibrant characters, this autobiography is a must-read for lovers of German literature and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781022332089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This classic literary work captures the essence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's life, work, and philosophy. The book provides a moving and inspiring account of Goethe's journey as a writer, scholar, and thinker, and offers a glimpse into his innermost thoughts and emotions. Filled with rich imagery, poetic language, and vibrant characters, this autobiography is a must-read for lovers of German literature and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Author: Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871404915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus Reviews This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871404915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus Reviews This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.
The Essential Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691181047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1051
Book Description
First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691181047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1051
Book Description
First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.
Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Goethe's History of Science
Author: Karl J. Fink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521402115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Fink explores how Goethe's scientific activities contributed to the growing literature in the history and philosophy of science.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521402115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Fink explores how Goethe's scientific activities contributed to the growing literature in the history and philosophy of science.
Nature's Open Secret
Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: Steiner Books
ISBN: 9780880103930
Category : Anthroposophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of Steiner's introductions to Goethe's works re-visions the meaning of knowledge and how we attain it. Goethe had discovered how thinking could be applied to organic nature and that this experience requires not just rational concepts but a whole new way of perceiving. In an age when science and technology have been linked to great catastrophes, many are looking for new ways to interact with nature. With a fundamental declaration of the interpenetration of our consciousness and the world around us, Steiner shows how Goethe's approach points the way to a more compassionate and intimate involvement with nature.
Publisher: Steiner Books
ISBN: 9780880103930
Category : Anthroposophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of Steiner's introductions to Goethe's works re-visions the meaning of knowledge and how we attain it. Goethe had discovered how thinking could be applied to organic nature and that this experience requires not just rational concepts but a whole new way of perceiving. In an age when science and technology have been linked to great catastrophes, many are looking for new ways to interact with nature. With a fundamental declaration of the interpenetration of our consciousness and the world around us, Steiner shows how Goethe's approach points the way to a more compassionate and intimate involvement with nature.
Grand Tour
Author: Andrea Amerio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783775736183
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a journey to Italy was considered an indispensable part of a young man's education. On arduous coach journeys, they pursued the trail of ancient Rome and the Renaissance to Florence, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Artists soon followed them, and thus yearning also led Johann Wolfgang von Goethe south from 1786 to 1788. 'Goethe's Italian Journey' vividly conveys his profound enthusiasm but also depicts well-organized, early tourism. Just seventy years later, the first photographers captured stations on the Grand Tour on gelatin silver plates. Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914), like Goethe from Frankfurt am Main, and Carlo Naya (1816-1882) produced intensely poetic views of St. Mark's Square, the Colosseum, a smoking Vesuvius, and beautiful fisherwomen on Capri.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783775736183
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a journey to Italy was considered an indispensable part of a young man's education. On arduous coach journeys, they pursued the trail of ancient Rome and the Renaissance to Florence, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Artists soon followed them, and thus yearning also led Johann Wolfgang von Goethe south from 1786 to 1788. 'Goethe's Italian Journey' vividly conveys his profound enthusiasm but also depicts well-organized, early tourism. Just seventy years later, the first photographers captured stations on the Grand Tour on gelatin silver plates. Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914), like Goethe from Frankfurt am Main, and Carlo Naya (1816-1882) produced intensely poetic views of St. Mark's Square, the Colosseum, a smoking Vesuvius, and beautiful fisherwomen on Capri.
Tales for Transformation
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872863637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began to study hermetic literature. This exploration had a huge impact on the early aesthetic education of Europe's great man of letters, the last renaissance titan. In the years that followed, Goethe immersed himself in the hermetic tradition, and even set up an alchemic laboratory and attempted to make an elixir of immortality. Although he eventually gave up his alchemical experiments, he was to believe in the validity of the Great Work for the rest of his life. Alchemic symbolism is prominent in many of Goethe's works, and it is particularly abundant in the tales of self-mastery and transformation presented in this collection. Included here are new translations of "Fairy Tale" ("Marchen"), Goethe's alchemical allegory; "The Counselor" and "The New Melusina," stories of temptation and the tests of love; "The Good Woman," a curious discourse on aesthetics and the rights of women; and the lyrical prose masterpiece "Novelle." Here also for the first time in English is "The Magical Flute," Goethe's sequel to Mozart's opera, with themes of initiation, the magical power of music, and liberated genius.
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872863637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began to study hermetic literature. This exploration had a huge impact on the early aesthetic education of Europe's great man of letters, the last renaissance titan. In the years that followed, Goethe immersed himself in the hermetic tradition, and even set up an alchemic laboratory and attempted to make an elixir of immortality. Although he eventually gave up his alchemical experiments, he was to believe in the validity of the Great Work for the rest of his life. Alchemic symbolism is prominent in many of Goethe's works, and it is particularly abundant in the tales of self-mastery and transformation presented in this collection. Included here are new translations of "Fairy Tale" ("Marchen"), Goethe's alchemical allegory; "The Counselor" and "The New Melusina," stories of temptation and the tests of love; "The Good Woman," a curious discourse on aesthetics and the rights of women; and the lyrical prose masterpiece "Novelle." Here also for the first time in English is "The Magical Flute," Goethe's sequel to Mozart's opera, with themes of initiation, the magical power of music, and liberated genius.
Love, Life, Goethe
Author: John Armstrong
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.