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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Weber, Christian

Titel

Goethes Prometheus: Kritik der poetischen Einbildungskraft

Ist Teil von

• Goethe yearbook, 2009, Vol.16, p.101

Ort / Verlag

Rochester: Boydell & Brewer

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What blind madness I What unholy foolhardinessl We accuse God of a twofold lack of knowledge, so that he appears not to know what he has done, and not to know what he has commanded; as if, forgetful of the human frailty of which he is himself the author, he has imposed of man commands which he cannot bear. ... to produce fire in one's own body is a sign that one has transcended the human condition.49 Durch ihr Werk transzentheren die mythischen Schmiede, ebenso "wie die epischen Dichter,50 die Lebensumstände der Menschen und verschmelzen dadurch in der gemeinen Vorstellung des Volks zu schamanischen Zauberkünstlern, die "wesentliche Eigenschaften und kreative Fähigkeiten der Menschheit auf geradezu übermenschliche Weise verkörpern. Only by assuming the role of the "ich" do I become the subject I am, and the act through which I thus fashion myself implies a "du," to which it attributes the capacity to speak "wie ich," to take on in turn the role of speaking subject which "ich" designate s. The "ich" ... is the genius of humanity in that it marks the origo that accomplishes itself each time language is spoken.68 Nicht, daß eine solche Lesart nicht möglich "wäre. Zitiert nach Odd Magne Bakke, When Children Become People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005) 97-98.