Die vorliegende Untersuchung arbeitet die wesentlichen gesellschaftspolitischen und ökonomischen Entwicklungslinien heraus, die sich während der geschichtlichen Umbruchphase um 1830 im deutschen Raum aus dem letzten Akt von Goethes Faust II ableiten lassen. Tiefgreifende politische, wirtschaftlich-technische und kulturelle Umwälzungen zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wirkten auf Goethe als Zeitgenossen ein und wurden von ihm in seinem literarischen Spätwerk verarbeitet. Aus Goethes Alterswerk Faust II heraus lassen sich Konstanten und Entwicklungen seiner Zeit sichtbar machen und, immer eingebettet in den zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext, konkret nachweisen. Diese Ausarbeitung will aufzeigen, dass Goethe im letzten Akt von Faust II einen sich zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts vollziehenden – und teils bereits vollzogenen - Wandel der menschlichen Geisteshaltung attestiert. Säkularisierung und zweckorientierte Rationalität, Beschleunigung, Enthumanisierung und Unterwerfung von Mensch und Natur stehen hierbei im Mittelpunkt. Fausts aus seinem Pakt mit dem Teufel entstandene Welt nimmt die uns heute umgebende vorweg, die geprägt ist von Datenflut, elektronischen Medien, einer von Alltagshektik geprägten Realität und systemimmanenten Expansionsstreben. Allein dies verleiht dem Drama ein unübersehbar hohes Gegenwartspotential. / This thesis explores the trends of socio-political developments during the period of historical changes in Germany around 1830 that can be deduced from Act V of Goethe´s Faust II. Profound political, technical, economic and cultural changes at the beginning of the nineteenth century had an impact on Goethe as a contemporary and appear in his late literary work. Thus specific constants and developments of his time are also presented in and can be deduced from one of the great literary works of the aged poet, Faust II. This paper shows that the final act of Faust II Goethe reveals profound changes in human mentality that took place at the beginning of the nineteenth century and partly even before: Secularization and ruthless rationality with a tendency to acceleration, de-humanization and unscrupulous submission of human beings and nature. The world that originated from Faust´s pact with the devil in Faust II anticipates the reality surrounding us nowadays, a reality characterized by a flood of data, electronic media and the hectic pace of everyday life, - a fact vouching for the play´s striking modernity. / Classics & World Languages / M.A. (German)

Die vorliegende Untersuchung arbeitet die wesentlichen gesellschaftspolitischen und ökonomischen Entwicklungslinien heraus, die sich während der geschichtlichen Umbruchphase um 1830 im deutschen Raum aus dem letzten Akt von Goethes Faust II ableiten lassen. Tiefgreifende politische, wirtschaftlich-technische und kulturelle Umwälzungen zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wirkten auf Goethe als Zeitgenossen ein und wurden von ihm in seinem literarischen Spätwerk verarbeitet. Aus Goethes Alterswerk Faust II heraus lassen sich Konstanten und Entwicklungen seiner Zeit sichtbar machen und, immer eingebettet in den zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext, konkret nachweisen. Diese Ausarbeitung will aufzeigen, dass Goethe im letzten Akt von Faust II einen sich zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts vollziehenden – und teils bereits vollzogenen - Wandel der menschlichen Geisteshaltung attestiert. Säkularisierung und zweckorientierte Rationalität, Beschleunigung, Enthumanisierung und Unterwerfung von Mensch und Natur stehen hierbei im Mittelpunkt. Fausts aus seinem Pakt mit dem Teufel entstandene Welt nimmt die uns heute umgebende vorweg, die geprägt ist von Datenflut, elektronischen Medien, einer von Alltagshektik geprägten Realität und systemimmanenten Expansionsstreben. Allein dies verleiht dem Drama ein unübersehbar hohes Gegenwartspotential. / This thesis explores the trends of socio-political developments during the period of historical changes in Germany around 1830 that can be deduced from Act V of Goethe´s Faust II. Profound political, technical, economic and cultural changes at the beginning of the nineteenth century had an impact on Goethe as a contemporary and appear in his late literary work. Thus specific constants and developments of his time are also presented in and can be deduced from one of the great literary works of the aged poet, Faust II. This paper shows that the final act of Faust II Goethe reveals profound changes in human mentality that took place at the beginning of the nineteenth century and partly even before: Secularization and ruthless rationality with a tendency to acceleration, de-humanization and unscrupulous submission of human beings and nature. The world that originated from Faust´s pact with the devil in Faust II anticipates the reality surrounding us nowadays, a reality characterized by a flood of data, electronic media and the hectic pace of everyday life, - a fact vouching for the play´s striking modernity. / Classics and World Languages / M.A. (German)

The poems of Mignon have inspired song writers for almost two centuries. They have served as the texts for more composers than almost any other single set of poetry. The Romantic composers were especially fond of the words. The poems are full of sadness and yearning and composers found they could be set in different moods. Some settings are in major tonalities while other settings of the same poem can be found in minor. Simple harmonies are used in some settings while others contain more complex harmonies. There are those composers who would have Mignon appear as a lost soul throughout all the poems with each song quietly sung, while others use a variety of dynamics adding drama to the setting and picturing Mignon as full of optimism at the end.

The dissertation situates the Goethean sublime in an obscured countermovement of resistance to the aestheticization the concept underwent in the 18th century. Before the encounter with the English aesthetic concept of the sublime, the German notion of das Erhabene (the sublime) named not a category of aesthetic experience, but a social affect. In contrast to the Sublime of Edmund Burke's theory, which explicitly excludes melancholy from the sources of the Sublime, das Erhabene is an affect related to the self-overcoming of melancholic subjectivity. As the aestheticized notion of the sublime displaced das Erhabene, Goethe became one of the most radical innovators of the aesthetics of the sublime. But as is demonstrated in chapters on The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Faust and Wilhelm Meister, he did so with the aim of recovering the displaced meaning of das Erhabene as social affect. Goethe's sublime aims to show at every turn that the so-called "aesthetic experience" of the sublime is really displaced social affect. His treatment of the sublime therefore constitutes a radical critique of the establishment of aesthetics as an independent sphere of inquiry. There is for Goethe no way to understand aesthetic experience independently of its social context. By reconnecting the sublime it to the original social meaning of das Erhabene, Goethe recovers the aesthetics of the sublime as a means of mediating and facilitating the movement of subjectivity from frustrated stasis to divine creativity; i.e., from exclusion to participation in the material creation of reality.

The dissertation situates the Goethean sublime in an obscured countermovement of resistance to the aestheticization the concept underwent in the 18th century. Before the encounter with the English aesthetic concept of the sublime, the German notion of das Erhabene (the sublime) named not a category of aesthetic experience, but a social affect. In contrast to the Sublime of Edmund Burke's theory, which explicitly excludes melancholy from the sources of the Sublime, das Erhabene is an affect related to the self-overcoming of melancholic subjectivity. As the aestheticized notion of the sublime displaced das Erhabene, Goethe became one of the most radical innovators of the aesthetics of the sublime. But as is demonstrated in chapters on The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Faust and Wilhelm Meister, he did so with the aim of recovering the displaced meaning of das Erhabene as social affect. Goethe's sublime aims to show at every turn that the so-called "aesthetic experience" of the sublime is really displaced social affect. His treatment of the sublime therefore constitutes a radical critique of the establishment of aesthetics as an independent sphere of inquiry. There is for Goethe no way to understand aesthetic experience independently of its social context. By reconnecting the sublime it to the original social meaning of das Erhabene, Goethe recovers the aesthetics of the sublime as a means of mediating and facilitating the movement of subjectivity from frustrated stasis to divine creativity; i.e., from exclusion to participation in the material creation of reality.

Univ., Diss.-2002--Würzburg, 2001. / Literaturverz. S. 211.

Apesar da grande quantidade de estudos acerca da obra de Fernando Pessoa, um número ínfimo deles enfoca o Fausto, poema dramático no qual Pessoa trabalhou entre 1908 e 1933, deixando-o, inconcluso e fragmentário, depositado na famosa arca junto com todo o seu espólio. Este trabalho pretende, tomando por base a edição organizada por Teresa Sobral Cunha, analisar como se processa a retomada do Fausto de Goethe pelo texto do poeta português. Para tanto, servem como pressupostos teóricos os conceitos de dialogismo, intertextualidade e, especialmente, hipertextualidade. Fernando Pessoa se apropria do texto do poeta alemão para transformá-lo, ou seja, ainda que algumas cenas de Fausto: tragédia subjectiva sejam reminiscências goetheanas, há uma reelaboração dos elementos alheios e o texto é relançado em um novo circuito de sentido. Existem, é certo, analogias entre os textos; todavia, as diferenças – que aqui serão enfatizadas – são marcantes. O Fausto de Goethe é um drama de ação, já o de Fernando Pessoa se enquadra na categoria de teatro estático, ideal para a representação de uma tragédia anímica. O personagem de Pessoa, a exemplo do seu antecessor, deseja ultrapassar limites; tenciona fazê-lo, porém, através do pensamento. Aqui, uma vez que o pacto inexiste, não há ameaça de danação eterna. Além disso, o protagonista é abúlico, não age, não ama e não se transforma. Enquanto o Fausto de Goethe, na figura do seu herói, expressa o otimismo e a crença no progresso, o de Pessoa, por sua vez, é a representação do sentimento de crise, da descrença na ação e da falta de esperança, características próprias do Decadentismo. / Despite the large number of studies concerning the work of Fernando Pessoa, a small percentage of them focuses on Faust, a dramatic poem in which Pessoa worked between the years of 1908 and 1933, leaving it, incomplete and fragmentary, deposited in his famous ark along with all his estate. This study aims to, based on the edition organized by Teresa Sobral Cunha, examine how the Portuguese poet text processes the resumption of Goethe's Faust. To do so, were used as theoretical concepts dialogism, intertextuality, and especially hypertextuality. Fernando Pessoa appropriates the text of the German poet to transform it, that is, even if some scenes of Faust: subjective tragedy are goetheans reminiscences’, there is a reworking of the extraneous elements and the text is relaunched in a new circuit of meaning. There are, of course, analogies between the texts, however, the differences - which are emphasized here - are striking. Goethe's Faust is a drama of action while Fernando Pessoa’s fits in the category of static theater, ideal for the representation of a tragedy pertaining to the soul. Pessoa’s character, like his predecessor, would exceed limits, it intends to do so, however, through thought. Here, since the pact does not exist, there is no threat of eternal damnation. Moreover, the protagonist is apathetic and does not act, love and transform. While Goethe's Faust, in the figure of his hero, expressed optimism and belief in progress, Pessoa’s, in turn, is the representation of the sense of crisis, of disbelief in action and lack of hope, characteristics of Decadence.

Apesar da grande quantidade de estudos acerca da obra de Fernando Pessoa, um número ínfimo deles enfoca o Fausto, poema dramático no qual Pessoa trabalhou entre 1908 e 1933, deixando-o, inconcluso e fragmentário, depositado na famosa arca junto com todo o seu espólio. Este trabalho pretende, tomando por base a edição organizada por Teresa Sobral Cunha, analisar como se processa a retomada do Fausto de Goethe pelo texto do poeta português. Para tanto, servem como pressupostos teóricos os conceitos de dialogismo, intertextualidade e, especialmente, hipertextualidade. Fernando Pessoa se apropria do texto do poeta alemão para transformá-lo, ou seja, ainda que algumas cenas de Fausto: tragédia subjectiva sejam reminiscências goetheanas, há uma reelaboração dos elementos alheios e o texto é relançado em um novo circuito de sentido. Existem, é certo, analogias entre os textos; todavia, as diferenças – que aqui serão enfatizadas – são marcantes. O Fausto de Goethe é um drama de ação, já o de Fernando Pessoa se enquadra na categoria de teatro estático, ideal para a representação de uma tragédia anímica. O personagem de Pessoa, a exemplo do seu antecessor, deseja ultrapassar limites; tenciona fazê-lo, porém, através do pensamento. Aqui, uma vez que o pacto inexiste, não há ameaça de danação eterna. Além disso, o protagonista é abúlico, não age, não ama e não se transforma. Enquanto o Fausto de Goethe, na figura do seu herói, expressa o otimismo e a crença no progresso, o de Pessoa, por sua vez, é a representação do sentimento de crise, da descrença na ação e da falta de esperança, características próprias do Decadentismo. / Despite the large number of studies concerning the work of Fernando Pessoa, a small percentage of them focuses on Faust, a dramatic poem in which Pessoa worked between the years of 1908 and 1933, leaving it, incomplete and fragmentary, deposited in his famous ark along with all his estate. This study aims to, based on the edition organized by Teresa Sobral Cunha, examine how the Portuguese poet text processes the resumption of Goethe's Faust. To do so, were used as theoretical concepts dialogism, intertextuality, and especially hypertextuality. Fernando Pessoa appropriates the text of the German poet to transform it, that is, even if some scenes of Faust: subjective tragedy are goetheans reminiscences’, there is a reworking of the extraneous elements and the text is relaunched in a new circuit of meaning. There are, of course, analogies between the texts, however, the differences - which are emphasized here - are striking. Goethe's Faust is a drama of action while Fernando Pessoa’s fits in the category of static theater, ideal for the representation of a tragedy pertaining to the soul. Pessoa’s character, like his predecessor, would exceed limits, it intends to do so, however, through thought. Here, since the pact does not exist, there is no threat of eternal damnation. Moreover, the protagonist is apathetic and does not act, love and transform. While Goethe's Faust, in the figure of his hero, expressed optimism and belief in progress, Pessoa’s, in turn, is the representation of the sense of crisis, of disbelief in action and lack of hope, characteristics of Decadence.

Apesar da grande quantidade de estudos acerca da obra de Fernando Pessoa, um número ínfimo deles enfoca o Fausto, poema dramático no qual Pessoa trabalhou entre 1908 e 1933, deixando-o, inconcluso e fragmentário, depositado na famosa arca junto com todo o seu espólio. Este trabalho pretende, tomando por base a edição organizada por Teresa Sobral Cunha, analisar como se processa a retomada do Fausto de Goethe pelo texto do poeta português. Para tanto, servem como pressupostos teóricos os conceitos de dialogismo, intertextualidade e, especialmente, hipertextualidade. Fernando Pessoa se apropria do texto do poeta alemão para transformá-lo, ou seja, ainda que algumas cenas de Fausto: tragédia subjectiva sejam reminiscências goetheanas, há uma reelaboração dos elementos alheios e o texto é relançado em um novo circuito de sentido. Existem, é certo, analogias entre os textos; todavia, as diferenças – que aqui serão enfatizadas – são marcantes. O Fausto de Goethe é um drama de ação, já o de Fernando Pessoa se enquadra na categoria de teatro estático, ideal para a representação de uma tragédia anímica. O personagem de Pessoa, a exemplo do seu antecessor, deseja ultrapassar limites; tenciona fazê-lo, porém, através do pensamento. Aqui, uma vez que o pacto inexiste, não há ameaça de danação eterna. Além disso, o protagonista é abúlico, não age, não ama e não se transforma. Enquanto o Fausto de Goethe, na figura do seu herói, expressa o otimismo e a crença no progresso, o de Pessoa, por sua vez, é a representação do sentimento de crise, da descrença na ação e da falta de esperança, características próprias do Decadentismo. / Despite the large number of studies concerning the work of Fernando Pessoa, a small percentage of them focuses on Faust, a dramatic poem in which Pessoa worked between the years of 1908 and 1933, leaving it, incomplete and fragmentary, deposited in his famous ark along with all his estate. This study aims to, based on the edition organized by Teresa Sobral Cunha, examine how the Portuguese poet text processes the resumption of Goethe's Faust. To do so, were used as theoretical concepts dialogism, intertextuality, and especially hypertextuality. Fernando Pessoa appropriates the text of the German poet to transform it, that is, even if some scenes of Faust: subjective tragedy are goetheans reminiscences’, there is a reworking of the extraneous elements and the text is relaunched in a new circuit of meaning. There are, of course, analogies between the texts, however, the differences - which are emphasized here - are striking. Goethe's Faust is a drama of action while Fernando Pessoa’s fits in the category of static theater, ideal for the representation of a tragedy pertaining to the soul. Pessoa’s character, like his predecessor, would exceed limits, it intends to do so, however, through thought. Here, since the pact does not exist, there is no threat of eternal damnation. Moreover, the protagonist is apathetic and does not act, love and transform. While Goethe's Faust, in the figure of his hero, expressed optimism and belief in progress, Pessoa’s, in turn, is the representation of the sense of crisis, of disbelief in action and lack of hope, characteristics of Decadence.

Die vorliegende Arbeit zur Lebenskunst und Heilkunde des Carl Gustav Carus und seiner Beziehung zu Goethe gliedert sich in die folgenden fünf Abschnitte: 1. Voraussetzungen (Biographie; Positionierung) 2. Verhältnis zu Goethe 3. Naturerkenntnis und Krankheitsvorstellung 4. Therapie 5. Lebenskunst und Medizin