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3 days ago · On the one hand [the German Romantics] formulated political ideals and social fictions in the utopian “as if” mode of literature. On the other hand they intended their texts to perform pragmatically as interventions that would produce the desired community by literary means, and, through dialogue with the reading public, generate the “We” in whose name they pre-emptively spoke.
3 days ago · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.
3 days ago · William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his deat...
1 day ago · "all boundaries between science and religion, science and art, objective and subjective, quanitity and quality, physics and psychology, astronomy and religion, god and ether, are irrevocably breaking down, being replaced by a conception of the basic unity, a basic cfp of all nature which braches out into the various kinds of human experience."
3 days ago · Jungs auf Fahrrädern werden in alle Stadtteile geschickt, um die Nachricht zu verkünden. Am nächsten Tag säumen laut Stadtchronik „ungeheure Menschenmengen“ die Straßen vom Bahnhof zum Geismannsaal, wo die Meister gefeiert werden. Zahllose Glückwunschtelegramme werden verlesen. Eines kommt von William Townley.
5 days ago · Der stand nämlich am Waldrand und hat ganz genau beobachtet, wie Meister Petz sich über den Honig in den hohlen Bäumen hermachte, und wie er sich vor lauter Vergnügen gar nicht mehr einkriegen ...
3 days ago · Pam. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice prime minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood at ...
