{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-nature-spirit-and-the-eternal-becoming-9798197051448","title":"The Wisdom of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature, Spirit, and the Eternal Becoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sapientia Mundi Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoet, scientist, statesman, philosopher - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remains the most complete mind Europe has ever produced.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature, Spirit, and the Eternal Becoming\u003c\/i\u003e traces the extraordinary arc of a life that refused to accept boundaries between art and science, feeling and reason, the individual soul and the natural world. From his childhood in the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt through his decades as the presiding genius of Weimar, Goethe pursued a vision of human wholeness that has lost none of its urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book follows Goethe from the literary revolution of \u003ci\u003eSturm und Drang\u003c\/i\u003e and the sensation of \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c\/i\u003e through his transformative Italian journey, his groundbreaking work in morphology and color theory, and the six-decade composition of \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e, the defining dramatic work of modern European literature. Along the way, it examines his concept of world literature, his dialogue with Persian poetry, his friendship with Schiller, and the philosophy of renunciation that shaped his final decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in a contemplative, historically grounded style for educated general readers, this volume offers a sustained engagement with a thinker whose reach encompassed botany and ballads, statecraft and optics, the chemistry of human desire and the metamorphosis of plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong its central themes and areas of exploration, this book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores Goethe's literary masterworks, from \u003ci\u003eWerther\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWilhelm Meister\u003c\/i\u003e to both parts of \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamines his revolutionary scientific contributions in morphology, comparative anatomy, and the theory of colors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraces the development of his concept of \u003ci\u003eWeltliteratur\u003c\/i\u003e and his pioneering engagement with Eastern poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIlluminates the philosophical ideas of \u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntsagung\u003c\/i\u003e, and the daemonic that defined his mature thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSituates his life and work within the political upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature, Spirit, and the Eternal Becoming\u003c\/i\u003e is an invitation to encounter one of history's most restless and capacious minds - a figure who insisted that genuine understanding demands the whole of our attention, the whole of our experience, and the courage to keep striving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891915112599,"sku":"9798197051448","price":1136.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197051448.webp?v=1781185140","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wisdom-of-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-nature-spirit-and-the-eternal-becoming-9798197051448","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}