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Hardcover Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients Book

ISBN: 1571133070

ISBN13: 9781571133076

Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients

(Part of the Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series)

For Plato, the daemonic is a sensibility that brings individuals into contact with divine knowledge; Socrates was also inspired by a "divine voice" known as his "daimonion." Goethe was introduced to this ancient concept by Hamann and Herder, who associated it with the aesthetic category of genius. This book shows how the young Goethe depicted the idea of daemonic genius in works of the Storm and Stress period, before exploring the daemonic in a...

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