Goethe’s concept of the daemonic : after the ancients

Angus Nicholls
Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2006

ISBN: 1571133070

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Book description
Angus Nicholls's book shows how the young Goethe initially depicted the idea of daemonic genius in works of the Storm and Stress period, before exploring the daemonic in a series of later poetic and autobiographical works. Reading Goethe's works on the daemonic through theorists such as Lukacs, Benjamin, Gadamer, Adorno, and Blumenberg, Nicholls contends that they contain philosophical arguments concerning reason, nature, and subjectivity that are central to both European Romanticism and the Enlightenment.
This is the first book to examine Goethe's writings on the daemonic in relation to both Classical philosophy and German idealism.

About the author
At the time of writing this book, Angus Nicholls is Claussen-Simon Foundation Research Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Department of German, Queen Mary, University of London.

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