6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's two-part dramatic poem — Faust Part I (1808) and Part II (1832) — following the scholar Faust who makes a wager with Mephistopheles: if Faust ever finds a moment so satisfying he wishes it to last forever, Mephistopheles owns his soul.
German poet, playwright, and philosopher who wrote the Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man — arguing that beauty is the path to freedom — and whose friendship with Goethe defined the Weimar Classicism period of German literature.
American scholar of German-Jewish literature who translated Illuminations — the most widely read collection of Walter Benjamin's essays — introducing Benjamin to the English-speaking world.
British academic at the University of Glasgow who has written extensively on Jungian psychology and German literature — Synchronicity and Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg and Jung, Carl Jung — one of the leading academic scholars of analytical psychology in the UK.
Czech-American scholar of German and Central European literature who contributed to the anglophone reception of Walter Benjamin.
German novelist who wrote The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus, and Death in Venice — the greatest German prose novelist of the 20th century — and who engaged with the tension between art and life, decadence and vitality, Nietzsche and music, throughout his work.