Goethe Kunstwerk Des Lebens by Rüdiger Safranski

A richly interpretive biography that treats its subject’s life as an artistic creation, tracing how personal experience, literary production, scientific inquiry, and public roles were woven into a coherent aesthetic and moral project; it situates his development within the cultural currents of Weimar Classicism, examines key relationships and works, and argues that his lifelong striving for self-cultivation and form-making made his existence itself a crafted, meaningful work of art.

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