This multi-volume collection represents the definitive assembly of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s intellectual output at the turn of the nineteenth century. The text spans his foundational contributions to the Sturm und Drang movement and Weimar Classicism, featuring the tragic verse of Faust alongside the epistolary narrative of Young Werther. Beyond fiction, the volumes document his empirical investigations into natural history, specifically his morphological studies of botanical metamorphosis and his physiological theories regarding how the human eye perceives light and shadow.
Scholars of German literature and historians of science read this edition to trace the development of a mind that unified artistic intuition with objective observation. The collection serves those interested in the transition from Enlightenment rationalism to Romanticism, providing a primary record of early evolutionary thought and philosophical humanism. Readers gain a technical understanding of eighteenth-century dramatic structure and a metabolic view of nature, leaving with a comprehensive framework of the cross-disciplinary ideas that defined the European intellectual landscape in 1800.
- Published
- 1800
- Language
- EN
