Author : Sara Friedrichsmeyer
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Androgyne in Early German Romanticism by : Sara Friedrichsmeyer
Download or read book The Androgyne in Early German Romanticism written by Sara Friedrichsmeyer and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The androgyne has remained for centuries a quintessential ideal of oneness. Relatively obscure in German literature until the end of the 18th century, it became in early German Romanticism the paradigm for personal and historical perfection. As interpreters of earlier forms of the ideal - transmitted through Plato and Bohme, through alchemy, mysticism, Pietism and the entire Hermetic tradition - and also as the first to understand it in psychological terms, the Jena Romantics occupy a pivotal position in the historical development of the dream of androgynous wholeness."