The German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on this day in 1749. In 1915, George Santayana wrote about the legacy of Geothe, Kant, and Hegel in understanding contemporary Germany. There ...

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AGENERAL eagerness to wring some usable wisdom from Goethe, preferably in condensed form, on the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth has pushed the great man from the company of the poets into the ...

Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...

A review of Conversations with Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann, translated by Allan Blunden. The grown man would “harvest” the ideas that Goethe let fall in his last decade. An aspiring poet, ...

Frederick C. Beiser focuses on Lebensphilosophie’s most prominent members: Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Georg Simmel.Lebensphilosophieappeared at a critical movement in Western culture ...