tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post4203867794530936987..comments2024-03-27T06:34:24.901-07:00Comments on Goethe Etc.: Goethe and utopiaGoethe Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390542069637659154noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post-6993309960262580832013-03-14T01:54:18.721-07:002013-03-14T01:54:18.721-07:00This account of Rapp and Owen of course makes me t...This account of Rapp and Owen of course makes me think of <i>Angel in the Forest</i> and <i>Miss Macintosh, My Darling</i> by Marguerite Young, two of the great but sadly neglected books of the 20th century, both of which focus with surgical precision on the destruction of the two New Harmony colonies. More precisely, they chronicle the corrupt mindset that had to sacrifice every tenet of its morality in order to uphold its morality. To her this was the story of America in microcosm, founded on idealisms whereby God granted great favor to those who took ruthless dominion over the people and resources of the area but then abandoned them because they were not rapacious enough. To hear Goethe brought into the discussion is quite interesting, because Young was, especially in Macintosh, more concerned with the question of intersubjectivity that Fichte and Holderlin and Goethe and other German philosophers following Kant concerned themselves with. A fascinating literary connection!WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com