{"product_id":"goethes-wilhelm-meisters-apprenticeship-and-philosophy-9780190859251","title":"Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy","description":"In the decades after its publication, Goethe's \u003cem\u003eWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship \u003c\/em\u003eserved as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest novels of the German canon. But in the decades and centuries following, the attention it has received in both disciplines has diminished in comparison to either Goethe's \u003cem\u003eSorrows of Young Werther \u003c\/em\u003eor his \u003cem\u003eElective Affinities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThis volume follows the impetus of its early respondents to examine deeply what exactly Goethe's long and complicated novel is doing, and how it engages with problems and themes of human life. An interdisciplinary group of eminent scholars grapple with the novel's engagement with central philosophical questions such as individuality, development, and authority; aesthetic formation and narrative (and human) contingency; and gender, sexuality, and marriage. That these questions and their working-through in \u003cem\u003eWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre\u003c\/em\u003e are in tension with one another speaks ultimately to how literature explores philosophical questions in ways that are open-ended, creative, and contain potential for new and different solutions to living with them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis unique philosophical approach to the form and purpose of a literary masterpiece illuminates new inroads into a novel at once famously complex and influential, and into the projects of one Germany's greatest writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllen Speight\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. A recipient of Fulbright, DAAD, and Berlin Prize Fellowships, he is the author of \u003cem\u003eHegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2001), \u003cem\u003eThe Philosophy of Hegel\u003c\/em\u003e (McGill-Queen's University Press\/Acumen, 2008), and of numerous articles on aesthetics and ethics in German idealism; he is also co-editor\/translator (with Brady Bowman) of \u003cem\u003eHegel's Heidelberg Writings\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and editor of \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy, Narrative and Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 2015). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Vandegrift Eldridge\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee. Her first monograph, \u003cem\u003eNovel Affinities: Composing the Family in the German Novel \u003c\/em\u003e(Camden House)\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eappeared in 2016. Other publications have appeared in \u003cem\u003eGoethe Yearbook\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWomen in German Yearbook\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMonatshefte\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589667422482,"sku":"9780190859251","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f65939b7-591c-4565-be7c-8b97f412b878.jpg?v=1756800473","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goethes-wilhelm-meisters-apprenticeship-and-philosophy-9780190859251","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}