The German Genius

p. 244.
7. Bruford, Culture and Society , p. 18.
8. Regine Schindler-Hürlimann, Wielands Menschenbild: Eine Interpretation des Agathon (Zurich: Atlantis, 1963).
9. Bruford, Culture and Society , p. 42.
10. Jan Cölin, Philologie und Roman: Zu Wielands erzählerischer Rekonstruktion griechischer Antike im “Aristipp” (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998).
11. Bruford, Culture and Society , p. 45.
12. Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age , vol. 2, Revolution and Renunciation (1790–1803) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000).
13. Bruford, Culture and Society , pp. 62–63.
14. Ibid., p. 11.
15. Boyle, Goethe , vol. 1, p. 170.
16. See Boyle, Goethe , vol. 1, pp. 176f. for a comparison of Werther and Schiller’s The Robbers (1781) which, he says, was likewise the object of a Sturm und Drang cult. For Napoleon’s criticisms, see Gustav Seibt, Goethe und Napoleon: Eine historische Begegnung (Munich: Beck, 2008).
17. Bruford, Culture and Society , pp. 13 and 18.
18. Boyle, Goethe , vol. 1, p. 267.
19. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Goethe als Intendent: Theaterleidenschaften im klassichen Weimar (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006).
20. Boyle, Goethe , vol. 1, p. 104. Habermas, Structural Transformation , p. 38.
21. Bruford, Culture and Society , p. 97.
22. Ibid., p. 10.
23. Boyle, Goethe , vol.1, pp. 592 and 145.
24. Ibid., p. 156.
25. Ibid., p. 164.
26. Ibid., p. 259.
27. Ibid., p. 420.
28. Ibid., p. 443.
29. Ibid., pp. 170–171.
30. Ibid., p. 180.
31. Ibid., p. 515.
32. For Goethe’s works in English, see Derek Glass, Goethe in English: A Bibliography of the Translations in the Twentieth Century , ed. Matthew Bell and Martin H. Jones (Leeds: Maney Publishing, for the English Goethe Society and the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2005). See also Nicholas Boyle and John Guthrie, eds., Goethe and the English-speaking World: Essays from the Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002).
33. Henry Hatfield, Aesthetic Paganism and German Literature: From Winckelmann to the Death of Goethe (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964), p. x.
34. Bruford, Culture and Society , p. 30.
35. Ibid., p. 50.
36. Boyle, Goethe , vol.1, 605.
37. Bruford, Culture and Society , p. 47.
38. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), Introduction by David Luke, p. ix.
39. David Hawke, The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007); John Gearey, Goethe’s Faust: The Making of Part 1 (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1981).
40. Goethe, Faust , p. xiv.
41. Ibid., p. xxxv.
42. Ibid., p. vii.
43. Boyle, Goethe , vol. 1, p. 346.
44. Max Kommerell, Der Dichter als Führer in der deutschen Klassik: Klopstock, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Jean Paul, Hölderlin. 3rd ed. (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1982); F. M. Barnard, Herder’s Social and Political Thought: From Enlightenment to Nationalism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), p. xix.
45. Barnard, Herder’s Social and Political Thought , p. 16.
46. Ibid., p. 55.
47. For Herder’s view of the difference between apes and men, see H. B. Nisbet, Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1970), pp. 250f.
48. Barnard, Herder’s Social and Political Thought , p. 57.
49. Ibid., p. 59.
50. Ibid., p. 63.
51. Ibid., p. 75.
52. Ibid., p. 93.
53. For Herder’s views on evolution, see Nisbet, Herder and the Philosophy , pp. 210ff.
54. Barnard, Herder’s Social and Political Thought , p. 120.
55. Ibid., p. 124.
56. Ibid., p. 147.
57. Johannes von Müller, Briefwechsel mit Johann Gottfried Herder und Caroline v. Herder, 1782– 1808 , ed. K. E. Hoffmann (Schaffhausen: Meier, 1962), 65, III, p. 109.
58. Steven D. Martinson, ed., A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2000), p. 3.
59. Bernt von Heiseler, Schiller , trans. and annotated by John Bednall (London: Eyre & Spottis-wood, 1962), pp. 52ff. for the first performances. See also Peter-André Alt, Schiller: Leben— Werk—Zeit , 2 vols. (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000), pp. 276ff.
60. Heiseler, p. 126.
61. Ibid., p. 3.
62. Ibid., p. 141.
63. Ibid., p. 9.
64. Rüdiger Safranski, Friedrich Schiller, oder, Die Erfindung des deutschen Idealismus (Munich: Hanser, 2004).
65. Martinson, Companion , p. 11.
66. Frederick Beiser, Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-examination (Oxford: Oxford University Press,