Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-561-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 139, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics, philosophy, and culture.

The eighteenth century is usually considered to be a time of increasing secularization in which the primacy of theology was replaced by the authority of reason, yet this lofty intellectual endeavor played itself out in a social and political reality that was heavily impacted by religious customs and institutions. This duality is visible in the literature and culture of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany. On the one hand, authors such asGoethe, Schiller, and Kleist are known for their distance from traditional Christianity. On the other hand, many canonical texts from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- from Goethe's Faust to Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans to Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- are not only filled with references to the Bible, but invoke religious frameworks.
Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion and religious difference in politics, philosophy, and culture, enriching our understanding of the relationship between religion and culture during this foundational period in German history.

Contributors: Frederick Amrine, Claire Baldwin, Lisa Beesley, Jane K. Brown, Jeffrey L. High, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut J. Schneider, Patricia Anne Simpson, John H. Smith, Tom Spencer.

Elisabeth Krimmer is professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Patricia Anne Simpson is professor of German at Montana State University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krimmer, Elisabeth

Simpson, Patricia Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
"Über Glaubenssachen filosofieren": Wieland on Reason and Religion
Personal Impersonalism in Herder's Conception of the Afterlife
Clever Priests and the Missions of Moses and Schiller: From Monotheism to the Aesthetic Civilization of the Individual
"Then Say What Your Religion Is": Goethe, Religion, and Faust
Classicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe's "Novelle"
Saint Mary's Two Bodies: Religion and Enlightenment in Kleist
Catholic Conversion and the End of Enlightenment in Religious and Literary Discourses
Sacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin's Madonna as Muse
Leibniz Reception around 1800: Monadic Vitalism and Aesthetic Harmony
"The Magic Formula We All Seek": Spinoza + Fichte = x
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simpson, Patricia Anne
PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Krimmer, Elisabeth
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.

Contributors: Frederick Amrine, Claire Baldwin, Lisa Beesley, Jane Brown, Jeffrey High, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut Schneider, Patricia Anne Simpson, John H. Smith, Tom Spencer.

Elisabeth Krimmer is professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Patricia Simpson is professor of German at Montana State University.