{"product_id":"goethes-naturalistic-anthropology","title":"Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe is somehow separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition.  In this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment.    Dr Bell's fresh readings of Goethe's major and lesser-known texts are set against the background of the science\n\u003cbr\u003eand philosophy of the age, and the writer's debts to other thinkers are analysed. The development of Goethe as a writer and thinker is traced from his sentimental epistolary novel Werther - read in the\n\u003cbr\u003econtext of the rise of psychological theory in the Englightment - to the emergence of his own theory of `empirical psychology' in the great roman a clef of 1809, Die Wahverwandtschaften.  In a major new interpretation of Wilhelm Meisters Lehriahre, Matthew Bell follows the ideal of organic growth from the novel's origins in Engligtenment optimism to its revision in an atmosphere of post-revolutionary scepticism.    Placing Goethe in an anthropological context, Goethe's\n\u003cbr\u003eNaturalistic Anthropology demonstrates that eighteenth-century anthropological thought provides an essential, hitherto overlooked context for the understanding of Goethe's literary enterprise from Werther\n\u003cbr\u003eto Die Wahllverwandtschaften.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156336603374,"sku":"9780198158943","price":293.33,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198158943.jpg?v=1706222650","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/goethes-naturalistic-anthropology","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}