Screen LibraryGerman Philhellenism the pathos of the historical imagination from Winckelmann to Goethe /
This book is an account of the modern German fascination with the art, politics and religion of ancient Greece from Winckelmann to Nietzsche's generation.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This book is an account of the modern German fascination with the art, politics and religion of ancient Greece from Winckelmann to Nietzsche's generation. 'A fascinating study of eighteenth-century German Philhellenism and of the debates which it generated in their social and political context. Damian Valdez's book is full of illuminating insights into the writings of Winckelmann, Herder, Schiller and Goethe.' - Joachim Whaley, Professor of German History and Thought at the University of Cambridge, UK, and author of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, 1493-1806 (2012) "Valdez intricately maps out the colourful and densely populated map of German philhellenism in the late eighteenth century. This rich and important book provides us with a fuller |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137293145, 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | 272 p. |
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9781137293152 : 1137293152 : |
| CLC: | I516.06 |
| Contents: | 1. Winckelmann and the young Herder I: Encounters 2. Winckelmann and the young Herder II: Historicity and Symbols 3. The Women of Athens I: The varieties of Enlightenment history 4. The Women of Athens II: Courtesans, heroines and the Greek Polis 5. Iphigenie auf Tauris: German theatre and Philhellenism 6. The legacies of Iphigenie auf Tauris 7. From Sturm und Drang to Italy 8. The loss of paradise and the history of freedom: German Philhellenism in the 1790s. |