Walter Kaufmann is an excellent teacher. In Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind, vol 1 he lays out clearly the way in which Goethe advanced our understanding of the mind and how Kant, despite his “making a clean sweep of so many fruitless speculations” (p. 5), impeded it, and [Read more…]
The malice of the forces of darkness and the arrival of four books and the latest LRB have caused The Liberation of Jerusalem to be temporarily postponed… Firstly, Doubt’s Boundless Sea, Skepticism & Faith in the Renaissance, by Don Cameron Allen, arrived early last week. I ordered this book because [Read more…]
Goethe, writing from Frascati in 1787: All in all, associating with more and more people agrees with me. I observe their various temperaments and the way each behaves. This one acts his part, that one does not; this one will make his way easily, that one with great difficulty: this [Read more…]
Title: Special Lecture On Goethe’s Visit To Naples, 1987 Location: Gion Community Centre Link out: Click here Introduction In 1786, the great German writer Johann von Goethe, already rich and famous as the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), the 37-year-old Goethe set off [Read more…]
I have been travelling through Italy in the company of Goethe this summer, by which I mean, of course, that I have been reading his “Italian Journey” and tracing his progress across Austria, through the Brenner, down to Lake Garda and then eastwards to Verona and Venice before turning south. [Read more…]
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