Goethe

by Benedetto Croce

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208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 2008

About the author

From 1902, Benedetto Croce, noted Italian historian and critic, wrote the four-volume Philosophy of the Spirit as a major work of modern idealism to 1917, and staunchly opposed Fascism.

This politician wrote on numerous topics, including aesthetics. A very strict Catholic family reared Benedetto Croce. After an earthquake in 1883 killed his parents and only sister and buried him for a very long time, he barely survived. From Catholicism around the age of 18 years in 1884, he turned away as an atheist for the rest of his life. After the incident, he inherited fortune of his family and ably lived the rest in relative leisure, which enabled him to devote a great deal of time.

Benedetto Croce served as the minister of education. He openly resisted participation in World War I. He openly hated the party till his death in 1952.

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Reviews

[ernst · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vorher habe ich das Goethe-Buch von Lukács gelesen. Verglichen damit ist Croce's Buch arm, oberflächlich und abstrakt (im Sinne von mangelnder Konkretheit). Das ist nicht einfach der mangelnden Fähigkeit Croces geschuldet, sondern ist in seinem methodologischen Ansatz begründet.

Aber Croces Buch ist auch erfrischend leicht, humorvoll, frei von falschem Respekt gegenüber Goethe und der oft philiströsen Goethe-Forschung. Und es bietet eine Perspektive auf Goethe und seine Werke, die man in der deutschen Literatur wenig antrifft. Diese Qualitäten werden das Buch für die meisten Leser sogar interessanter und zugänglicher machen.