TY - BOOK ID - 65370902 TI - Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and philosophy AU - Eldridge, Sarah Vandegrift AU - Speight, Allen PY - 2020 SN - 9780190859251 9780190859268 0190859253 0190859261 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, KW - Philosophy, German KW - Philosophy, German - 19th century KW - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, - 1749-1832. - Zur Farbenlehre UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65370902 AB - "Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre served as a touchstone for major philosophical and literary figures of his age (including, among many others, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Novalis). But it has received far less attention in both disciplines (especially in English-language scholarship) than either Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther or Elective Affinities. This volume takes up the question of what Goethe's long and rather complicated novel is doing and how it engages with problems and themes of human life more generally, including issues of individuality, development, and authority; aesthetic formation and narrative (and human) contingency; gender, sexuality, and marriage; about power, institutions, and control"-- ER -