Goethe's Modernisms

ISBN-13: 9781441188328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Astrida Orle Tantillo

Opis

'Goethe's Modernisms' demonstrates Goethe's pivotal influence on the development of Western society. It also reveals him to be one of modernity's profoundest critics.

Spis treści

Abbreviations and Goethe Editions
Acknowledgements

Introduction
    Goethe's Dynamic Philosophy: The Principle of Compensation
    Standards, Values and Contemporary Politics: Aristotle and Rousseau
    Reading Goethe for Today

Chapter One: Faust, Capitalism, and Technology
   Dynamic Perspectives and Faust
   Faust as a Tragedy
   Faust's Loss of Soul
   Projected Modernisms
   Religion in a Capitalist World
   Beauty and the New Economy

Chapter Two: Werther the Evangelical
    Part I: The Sorrows of Young Werther
        Pietism
        Werther's Pietism
        Werther's Catholic Vestiges
    Part II: The Legacy of the Novel
        Werther's Shared History with American Evangelicalism
        Goethe, Emerson, and American Spiritualism
        Hierarchy and Werther's Case against Grammar

 Chapter Three: Wilhelm Meister and Progressive Education   
    Part I: Context and Contemporary Overview
        Pedagogy and Human Nature: Aristotle and Rousseau
        Teacher-Centered versus Student-Centered Models Today
    Part II: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
        The Arts versus Commerce
        Aristocratic Education and the Arts
    Part III: The Student-Centered and Teacher-Centered Classrooms
        Progressive, Student-Centered Models
        Business, Teacher-Centered Approaches
    Part IV: Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years: Hybrid Model of Education
        The Pedagogical Province
        Reverence
        Balancing the Democratic against the Aristocratic
        Liberal Education
        Goethe's Hybrid Educational Model

Conclusion
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