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Preface: The Anthropocene and the Challenge of Cultural Difference Read chapter Read first chapter

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Goethe’s Faust and the Ecolinguistics of <Here>

Author : Simon Richter

Published in: German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Scholarship now understands that Goethe’s Faust is not a celebration of modernity, but rather its critique. Faust’s striving comes at a cost measured in human lives, shattered economies, failing empires, territorial wars, and environmental degradation. What was understood as the vision of a free republic of the Faustian spirit is now seen as Goethe’s critique of capitalism, colonialism, and technology. If Goethe does not champion Faust as the modern individual, does he offer an alternative? This chapter argues that we can discern in Faust an ecolinguistic conception of an ego that diminishes in response to an awareness of nature, history, and geological time. Karl Bühler’s model of the “here-now-I system of subjective orientation” provides a new way of thinking about place that is already instantiated in Goethe’s Faust.

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Metadata
Title
Goethe’s Faust and the Ecolinguistics of
Author
Simon Richter
Copyright Year
2017
Book
German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-55985-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-54222-9

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54222-9_4