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Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe

Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe

Krimmer, Elisabeth
Simpson, Patricia Anne

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 139

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1571135618
ISBN13: 9781571135612
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Dec 2 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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