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Book SynopsisCutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on environmentalism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 22 features a special section on environmentalism, edited by Dalia Nassar and Luke Fischer, with contributions on: the metaphor of music in Goethe's scientific work and its influence on Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, Uexküll, and Zuckerkandl (Frederick Amrine); his conceptualization of modern civilization in Faust (Gernot Böhme); a non-anthropocentricvision of nature in his writings on the intermaxillary bone (Ryan Feigenbaum); his geopoetics of granite (Jason Groves); the historical antecedents of biosemiotics in "Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen" (Kate Rigby); and the conceptof the "Dark Pastoral" in Werther (Heather I. Sullivan). In addition, there are articles on Goethe as a spiritual predecessor of phenomenology (Iris Hennigfeld); concepts of the "hermaphrodite" in contributions to theEncyclopédie by Louis de Jaucourt and Albrecht von Haller (Stephanie Hilger); on Goethe's poem "Nähe des Geliebten" (David Hill); on the link between commerce and culture in West-östlicher Divan (Daniel Purdy); on Goethe's thoughts on collecting and museums (Helmut Schneider); and on intrigues in the works of J. M. R. Lenz (Inge Stephan). Contributors: Frederick Amrine, Gernot Böhme, Ryan Feigenbaum, Luke Fischer, Jason Groves, Iris Hennigfeld, Stephanie M. Hilger, David Hill, Dalia Nassar, Daniel Purdy, Kate Rigby, Helmut J. Schneider, Inge Stephan, Heather I. Sullivan. Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmeris Professor of German at the University of California Davis. Book review editor Birgit Tautz is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Special Section on Goethe and Environmentalism Art, Nature, and the Poesy of Plants in the Goethezeit: A Biosemiotic Perspective The Music of the Organism: Uexküll, Merleau-Ponty, Zuckerkandl, and Deleuze as Goethean Ecologists in Search of a New Paradigm Toward a Nonanthropocentric Vision of Nature: Goethe's Discovery of the Intermaxillary Bone Goethe's Petrofiction: Reading the Wanderjahre in the Anthropocene Nature and the "Dark Pastoral" in Goethe's Werther Goethe und die moderne Zivilisation Goethe's Phenomenological Way of Thinking and the Urphänomen Orientation and Supplementation: Locating the "Hermaphrodite" in the Encyclopédie Claudine von Villa Bella and the Publication of "Nähe des Geliebten" West-östliche Divan and the "Abduction/Seduction of Europe": World Literature and the Circulation of Culture Kunstsammlung und Kunstgeselligkeit: Zu Goethes Sammlungs- und Museumskonzeption zwischen 1798 und 1817 "Er hatte einen entschiedenen Hang zur Intrige": Überlegungen zu J. M. R. Lenz, seiner Rezeption und seinen Werken Review Essay: Goethe's Writings as a Minister of State in Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach Book Reviews
