Kant, Hegel, Goethe, Benjamin, Adorno, Agamben - NGV Course Materials for the Städel Collection "European Masters" Exhibition
Goethe Reader
(select "booklet printing" in "Page Scaling"
drop-down menu under "Page Handling" heading on Print menu
box to print as booklet)
My paper explaining a bit more about Hegel, and two major Hegel websites if anyone wants to explore Hegel further: one two
Goethe's "Nature Fragment" - notes from Goethe's conversations with Tobler from 1782 (as reprinted by Rudolph Steiner in 1892).
Drawing by Goethe illustrating Alexander von Humboldt's Ideen zu einer Geographie der Pflanzen (1813)
Two poems by Goethe: Metamorphosis of Plants and Metamorphosis of Animals
Another of my papers filling in some background on the influence of Chinese philosophy on Leibniz and Wolff (which later inflenced Goethe)
Regarding the question about recent Goethe-inspired science: this
stems largely from the work of David
Bohm:
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
(summary
here)
and his many
other works
see also:
Hiley & Peat (eds) Quantum
Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm
Bohm
& Hiley (eds) The Undivided
Universe: an Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory
Bohm
& Peat (eds) Science, Order and
Creativity
Henri
Bortoft The Wholeness of Nature
Having been a bit cheeky about The Bard, here's Goethe's Oration On Shakespeare from G. H. Lewes' The Life and Work of Goethe (highly recommended); also worth reading is Emil Ludwig's Goethe: The History of a Man.
For more of Goethe on
Shakespeare, see vol 3 of the Princeton edition Goethe (Essays
on Art and Literature) pp.90-93
and 166-174.
See also Walter Kaufmann's essays collected under the
title The
Owl and the Nightingale in
the U.K. and From Shakespeare to Existentialism in
the U.S.
w.r.t. Tischbein's "Goethe in the Roman Campagne" :
Raphael's
"Academy of Athens"; Iphigenia
(cf Feuerbach's
"Roman Woman"); Emilie&Lucinda;
Goethe's
Loves&Works; Goethe
on Laocoon (see http://tinyurl.com/NGVlaocoon)
Goethe gallery: @16 @23 @32 @41 @44 @50 @60 @68 @77
An entry from Goethe's Italian Journey bringing Johan Dahl's Eruption of Mt. Vesuvuis to life
The rich history of The island of Aegina is the topic of Carl Rottmann's "Greek Landscape on the Island of Aegina" (http://tinyurl.com/aphaia) (question: are there any ants on the oak tree?)
Sample of the Gothic language (wrt C. F. Lessing's "Thousand Year-Old Oak") - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltharius
Nietzsche's aphorism "Will and Wave" (#310 from The Gay Science) re Gustave Courbet's "The Wave" (1869-70). Also: G.S.#316 and pref to 2nd ed #4
Der
Blaue Reiter and Die
Bruecke
Walter
Benjamin - 9th
"Thesis on History" ; Origin of the German
Trauerspie1 p182
; postscript
to PhD
Theodor
Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment page
19
Giorgio
Agamben - (The
Man Without Content)
