Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Carter, William H

Titel

Faust’s Begehren: Revisiting the History of Political Economy in Faust II

Ist Teil von

• Goethe yearbook, 2014, Vol.21 (1), p.103-128

Ort / Verlag

Rochester: North American Goethe Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Goethe repeatedly employs and couples Wert (value) and Begebr/en (demand) in scenes leading up to and including the Helena episode. [...]he demonstrates in these two acts a significant change in his own approach to value, from an intrinsic to a subjective view of it. [...]what is Goethe's contribution, in acts 2 and 3, to the history of political economy? According to this theory, the modern economy was no longer organized by the problem of scarcity, with its auxiliary dynamics of production, distribution, and needs; instead, in an economy of abundance, the dynamics that mattered were consumption and desire, for, when individuals were able to choose among an almost infinite variety of consumable goods, the way that they developed and articulated their tastes was more important than labor and the accumulation of capital. [...]alternative spellings of both his given name and his surname offer insight into the publication and circulation history of this seminal text.