Amrine, Frederick:
Goethean Intuitions

In: Goethe Yearbook 18, 1 (2011), 35-50

Mention of Spinoza: s./v. Kommentar/commentary

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Reception history
Subject (individuals): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

English commentary: "As a philosopher of science, Goethe progresses through three phases, which one might call Realist, Idealist, and Romantic. The major influence in the first phase is Spinoza as interpreted by Herder; in the second, Fichte. In the third phase, Goethe develops an original epistemology that might be termed a kind of gesteigerter Spinozismus" (p. 35).

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