Byrne Bodley, Lorraine
(2015)
Review: Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson, eds., Religion, Reason, and
Culture in the Age of Goethe. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and
Culture. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013.
Goethe Yearbook, 22.
Abstract
Krimmer and Simpson’s editorial collaboration brings together an eclectic
group of scholars, who focus on the significant theme of religion in German
writing from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and represent
numerous perspectives on this vast topic. The editors identify their chronological
field, the “long eighteenth century,” as the period extending from Wieland
through Goethe and Hegel, or from Sentimentality through Romanticism.
However, as one might expect with such a historically weighty subject, the
boundaries set by the title are elastic. If we take into account Frederick Amrine’s
compelling discussion of Spinoza and Fichte and their reception in Deleuze, one
acquires a sense of the great temporal expanse that the discussion of religion
necessarily takes on: few subjects depend upon such an enormous tradition for
their underpinnings.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Elisabeth Krimmer; Patricia Anne Simpson; Religion; Reason;
Culture; Goethe; German Literature; German Linguistics; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > Music |
| Item ID: |
7462 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Lorraine Byrne Bodley
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Sep 2016 09:25 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Goethe Yearbook |
| Publisher: |
The Goethe Society of North America |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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