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Erkenntnistreben und Humanität. Zu Wielands Versuch einer Zusammenlegung verschiedener Begriffe der Religion im Agathodämon

2010

Around 1800, in Europe, and especially in German speaking countries, there was much intense rethinking of the past in which traditional elements were represented in radically new forms. In one of his last novels, Ch. Martin Wieland deals with a number of questions deriving from the crisis of the certainties of the age of enlightenment and the appearance of the first ideas of romanticism, in particular questions regarding religion. This paper investigates how Wieland examines every set of ideas or beliefs (from traditional orthodoxy to the spiritual end esoteric practices typical of the 18th century) from a strongly critical point of view. In each one he identifies two parallel approaches to…