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Article: Goethe in seiner Epoche. Zwolf Verusche.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2001
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Goethe in seiner Epoche. Zwolf Versuche. By CHRISTOPH PERELS. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1998. 250 pp. DM 78.
In these twelve essays Christoph Perels, Director of the Freie Deutsche Hochstift in Frankfurt a.M., examines various aspects of Goethe's life and work and the intellectual environment in which he grew up. The book opens with a wide-ranging account of the task of culture in the context of eighteenth century enlightened absolutism that marked German political life of the day. Although regional differences greatly mattered in the Holy Roman Empire, there were many common features: the princes built on a large scale; public festivities that showed the ruler in all his ...