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- adjective Of or relating to Johann Wolfgang
Goethe , a German writer and thinker.
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Examples
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It was Goethean Humanität that transformed the dictum “Anima naturaliter Christiana” into “Anima naturaliter humana.”
Previews 2009
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Via Kittler once more, the Faustian (Goethean) bargain — trading one's mute soul for the voice of poetry — comes true yet again in an oralized alphabetic writing resembling nothing so much as the metonymic skids of the unconscious.
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It was Goethean Humanität that transformed the dictum “Anima naturaliter Christiana” into “Anima naturaliter humana.”
A Different Stripe: 2008
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A severe conflict between the Nietzschean standpoint on the one hand and the Goethean-Steinerian on the other began to develop in the poet's psyche.
Archive 2010-01-01 David McDuff 2010
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A severe conflict between the Nietzschean standpoint on the one hand and the Goethean-Steinerian on the other began to develop in the poet's psyche.
Edith Södergran: a biographical profile - 10 David McDuff 2010
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It was Goethean Humanität that transformed the dictum “Anima naturaliter Christiana” into “Anima naturaliter humana.”
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This gave rise to a crisis within the educated bourgeoisie which had been nurtured by Goethean ideals of the good, the true and the beautiful, as the basis for the harmonious personality.
The Idealised and Naturalistic View of Reality: Early 20th Century German Literature Laureates 2005
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His topic was the Goethean ideal of world literature, which he proceeded to demonstrate by translating the German and Spanish addresses of Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset.
Global Villagers Levin, Harry 1985
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Another contribution to Goethean literature is the Correspondence between the great Poet and his intimate friend Knebel, which has just appeared in
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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Having once adopted the Goethean way of thinking-in-polarities, we may feel sure that there is somewhere in nature a phenomenon which represents the polar opposite of the levity-gravity relationship peculiar to the gaseous state.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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