Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy

Herausgeber: Eldridge, Sarah V; Speight, Allen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most famous novels in the German canon, but one which remains neglected in English-language scholarship: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Contributors explore broad philosophical questions as they are developed in Goethe's literary text, bringing new insight to both literary studies and philosophy. Their essays treat individuality, development, and authority; aesthetic formation and narrative (and human) contingency; gender, sexuality, and marriage; power, institutions, and control as philosophical problems addressed by Goethe's novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780190859251
• ISBN-10: 0190859253
• Artikelnr.: 59081043

Autorenporträt

Allen Speight is Associate Professor of Philosophy and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. A recipient of Fulbright, DAAD, and Berlin Prize Fellowships, he is the author of Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2001), The Philosophy of Hegel (McGill-Queen's University Press/Acumen, 2008), and of numerous articles on aesthetics and ethics in German idealism; he is also co-editor/translator (with Brady Bowman) of Hegel's Heidelberg Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and editor of Philosophy, Narrative and Life (Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 2015). Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee. Her first monograph, Novel Affinities: Composing the Family in the German Novel (Camden House) appeared in 2016. Other publications have appeared in Goethe Yearbook, Women in German Yearbook, Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation, and Monatshefte.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: A Philosophy of Intuitive Thinking, Eckart Förster,
translated by Allen Speight and Sarah V. Eldridge
* Chapter 2: The Novel of its Times: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship on Life, Literature, and the New Tasks of the
Bildungsroman, Allen Speight
* Chapter 3: Narrative Direction: Novel Form and the Experience of
Contingency in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Sarah Vandegrift
Eldridge
* Chapter 4: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister: A Tendency of Romantic
Philosophy, Elizabeth Millán
* Chapter 5: To Err is Male: Bildung, Education, and Gender in Wilhelm
Meister's Apprenticeship, Elisabeth Krimmer
* Chapter 6: Seeing Faces in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe and Physiognomics,
Martin Donougho
* Chapter 7: Agency and embodiment in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
, Charlotte Lee
* Chapter 8: Hegel and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship,
Stephen Houlgate
* Chapter 9: Playing and Reality: The Constructive Powers of Illusion
in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Dorothea von Mücke
* Chapter 10: Going On: Philosophy of Continuity and the Writing of
Coherence in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Helmut
Müller-Sievers