Works Werke und Briefe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Works Werke und Briefe write by Eduard Mörike. This book was released on 1968. Works Werke und Briefe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work
Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work write by Dieter Ising. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) was a pastoral counselor and theologian of hope. His theology and pastoral approach, shaped as they were by the awakening in his congregation and numerous incidents of faith healing, provoked earnest and lively debate, and the controversy continues today. Ising's work mines the original sources, the product of an interaction with Blumhardt's life and work that goes back many years. He has drawn a portrait that explores the shadows as well as its bright side. Readers are invited to enter fully into the nineteenth century, Blumhardt's century, yet are constantly reminded that the problems of that day have lost none of their currency within the altered mental horizons of today.
The Vegetative Soul
The Vegetative Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vegetative Soul write by Elaine P. Miller. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The Vegetative Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Vegetative Soul demonstrates that one significant resource for the postmodern critique of subjectivity can be found in German Idealism and Romanticism, specifically in the philosophy of nature. Miller demonstrates that the perception of German Idealism and Romanticism as the culmination of the philosophy of the subject overlooks the nineteenth-century critique of subjectivity with reference to the natural world. This book's contribution is its articulation of a plant-like subjectivity. The vision of the human being as plant combats the now familiar conception of the modern subject as atomistic, autonomous, and characterized primarily by its separability and freedom from nature. Reading Kant, Goethe, Hölderlin, Hegel, and Nietzsche, Miller juxtaposes two strands of nineteenth-century German thought, comparing the more familiar "animal" understanding of individuation and subjectivity to an alternative "plantlike" one that emphasizes interdependence, vulnerability, and metamorphosis. While providing the necessary historical context, the book also addresses a question that has been very important for recent feminist theory, especially French feminism, namely, the question of the possible configuration of a feminine subject. The idea of the "vegetative" subject takes the traditional alignment of the feminine with nature and the earth and subverts and transforms it into a positive possibility. Although the roots of this alternative conception of subjectivity can be found in Kant's third Critique and its legacy in nineteenth-century Naturphilosophie, the work of Luce Irigaray brings it to fruition.
Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe
Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe write by Gerad Gentry. This book was released on 2024-10-21. Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethe’s work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore his impact through ideas of organic and aesthetic formation; methods of biology, reason, becoming, and Bildung; modes of self-conscious comportment to nature, art, and the self; and conceptions of finitude and divinity. This volume underscores the interdisciplinary impact of Goethe’s thought and work. Of particular note is Goethe's unified and non-reductive account of nature, human education, social life, and reason. These contributions shed light on how Goethe's thought furthers the methodological sciences of his day while yielding resources for the grounding of theories of art in principles of idealism as well as imminent critiques of idealism through insights about organic formation and activity. The result is a compelling sense of unity through plurality. Contributors: James Conant, Richard Eldridge, Camilla Flodin, Michael Forster, Gerad Gentry, Keren Gorodeisky, Johannes Haag, Joel Lande, Lara Ostaric, Mattias Pirholt, Anne Pollok, Karin Schutjer, Allen Speight, Joan Steigerwald, Violetta Waibel, David Wellbery.
The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing
The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing write by Natalya Baldyga. This book was released on 2018-10-26. The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate with later generations – the Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 1767–69). This collection of 104 short essays represents one of the eighteenth century’s most important critical engagements with the theater and its potential to promote humanistic discourse. Lessing’s essays are an immensely erudite, deeply engaged, witty, ironic, and occasionally scathing investigation of European theatrical culture, bolstered by deep analysis of Aristotelian dramatic theory and utopian visions of theater as a vehicle for human connection. This is the first complete English translation of Lessing's text, with extensive annotations that place the work in its historical context. For the first time, English-language readers can trace primary source references and link Lessing’s observations on drama, theory, and performance not only to the plays he discusses, but also to dramatic criticism and acting theory. This volume also includes three introductory essays that situate Lessing’s work both within his historical time period and in terms of his influence on Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment theater and criticism. The newly translated Hamburg Dramaturgy will speak to dramaturgs, directors, and humanities scholars who see theater not only for entertainment, but also for philosophical and political debate.
