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Goethe's naturalistic anthropology : man and other plants /

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Showing how Goethe protrayed human beings as part of natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment, this book demonstrates that 18th-century anthropological thought provides an essential, hitherto overlooked context for the understanding of Goethe's literary enterprise.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, Matthew, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subjects:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832 > Knowledge > Anthropology.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von > 1749-1832
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
Anthropology in literature.
Literature and anthropology.
Anthropologie dans la littérature.
Littérature et anthropologie.
Anthropology
Anthropology in literature
Literature and anthropology
Antropologie.
Anthropologie
Naturphilosophie
German literature
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Goethe and the anthropology of the European enlightenment
  • Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers
  • Weimar anthropology
  • Man and other plants
  • Empirical psychology.