Goethe's Modernisms
1st Edition
Published on 9. May 2010
208 pages
978-1-4411-3278-9 (ISBN)
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1. Auflage
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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978-1-4411-3278-9 (9781441132789)
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Astrida Orle Tantillo is Visiting Associate Dean for Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and President of The Goethe Society of North America. She is the author of The Will to Create: Goethe's Philosophy of Nature and Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics.
Content
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
Works Cited
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
Works Cited
