Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editions and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Ancients and Their Daemons
- 2 The Daemonic in the Philosophy of the Sturm und Drang: Hamann and Herder
- 3 Romanticism and Unlimited Subjectivity: “Mahomets Gesang”
- 4 Werther: The Pathology of an Aesthetic Idea
- 5 Kantian Science and the Limits of Subjectivity
- 6 Schelling, Naturphilosophie, and “Mächtiges Überraschen”
- 7 After the Ancients: Dichtung und Wahrheit and “Urworte. Orphisch”
- 8 Eckermann, or the Daemonic and the Political
- Epilogue: Socrates and the Cicadas
- Works Cited
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editions and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Ancients and Their Daemons
- 2 The Daemonic in the Philosophy of the Sturm und Drang: Hamann and Herder
- 3 Romanticism and Unlimited Subjectivity: “Mahomets Gesang”
- 4 Werther: The Pathology of an Aesthetic Idea
- 5 Kantian Science and the Limits of Subjectivity
- 6 Schelling, Naturphilosophie, and “Mächtiges Überraschen”
- 7 After the Ancients: Dichtung und Wahrheit and “Urworte. Orphisch”
- 8 Eckermann, or the Daemonic and the Political
- Epilogue: Socrates and the Cicadas
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Goethe's Concept of the DaemonicAfter the Ancients, pp. i - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006