Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levinger, Matthew

Titel

The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche. By George S. Williamson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. 376. $55.00 (cloth); $24 (paper). ISBN 0-226-89945-4 (cloth); 0-226-89946-2 (paper)

Ist Teil von

• Central European History, 2006, Vol.39 (2), p.306-308

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• “Christianity has emptied Walhalla, felled the sacred groves, extirpated the national imagery as a shameful superstition, as a devilish poison, and given us instead the imagery of a nation whose climate, laws, culture, and interests are strange to us and whose history has no connection whatever with our own” (p. 72). The young Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel voiced this lament in 1796, while working as a private tutor in Berne.