Research Catalog

Title

Continued existence, reincarnation, and the power of sympathy in classical Weimar / Lieselotte E. Kurth-Voigt.

Author

Kurth-Voigt, Lieselotte E., 1923-

Publication

Columbia, SC : Camden House, 1999.

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Description

xvi, 264 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• In Wieland's novel Agathodamon, Apollonius ponders fundamental questions concerned with the plurality of lives, questions that have fascinated a host of poets and philosophers throughout history. Intensely aware of this tradition, the writers of German Classicism eagerly searched for answers, and one possibility for continued life, the transmigration of the soul, caught their abiding interest.
• Professor Kurth-Voigt's book traces the development of these concepts in ancient literature, Judaism, and early Christianity; it outlines their discussion during the Enlightenment and indicates the importance of Orientalism for Western views on reincarnation. The final and major part of the book treats the reception of these ideas in the writings of the Weimar classicists, and shows that their interest in these matters was more profound and lasting than has hitherto been recognized.

Series Statement

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Uniform Title

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.

Subjects

• Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) > Intellectual life
• German literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Reincarnation in literature
• Classicism > Germany > Weimar (Thuringia)
• Authors, German > 18th century > Religious life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. From Antiquity to Enlightenment A Historical Survey of Reincarnationism. 1. Greek and Roman Heritage. 2. Judaism and Early Christianity. 3. Early Enlightenment. 4. Orientalism -- II. Ancient and Modern Critics. 5. Dissenting Views and Satirical Voices -- III. Weimar Classicism. 6. Christoph Martin Wieland. 7. Johann Georg Schlosser and Johann Gottfried Herder. 8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 9. Friedrich von Schiller. 10. Later Voices - Toward Romanticism.

ISBN

1571131566 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99018275

OCLC

• 40755011
• ocm40755011

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries