tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post1690790078763365126..comments2024-02-26T06:19:48.161-08:00Comments on Goethe Etc.: Goethe and the GreeksGoethe Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390542069637659154noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post-77738700942683824322011-10-16T08:30:53.203-07:002011-10-16T08:30:53.203-07:00As a student of classical Greek philosophy, Descar...As a student of classical Greek philosophy, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, as well as German philosophy from Kant to Hegel, I am quite interested in German thinkers (Goethe, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Jacobi, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer).<br /><br />Thank you for your compliment on my site. I am adding you to my blogroll under "General Philosophy" links.Ross Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14753431796536019173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post-42178645450629651702011-10-12T11:03:09.872-07:002011-10-12T11:03:09.872-07:00It appears that Goethe's literary criticism is...It appears that Goethe's literary criticism is an "all things considered" approach. It is not New Criticism or "postmodernism." It would not appear as a Straussian parsing of the text. It would not be reductive, like Marxist or feminist approaches--unless the individual doing the writing truly did justice to himself and the text. Goethe seems to have learned from Homer and the Greeks, no doubt. These sources remain the perennial Ground. Hegel's model for literature was "Antigone." But Goethe also seems to have appropriated Shakespeare's approach to art. Shakespeare drank in Plautus and Terence and Vergil as a young student of Latin. He then grew up to create his own unique spin. As Harold Bloom puts it, he invented the human. This un heard of blend of the individual and the "classic" seems also to inform Goethe's vision. I'm listening to cassettes on Augustine, who was the pioneer in this personal-yet-universal writing. One then has to keep going back...to Paul, his Letters, and the entire New Dispensation. It is partly in this Light that Goethe and Strauss, Heidegger (authenticity) and Gadamer (authenticity) live out the tension between Athens and Jerusalem, the Ancients and the Moderns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com