![]() By locating Goethe's position in the examination of visual culture, both established and emerging scholars analyze the degree to which visual aesthetics determined the cultural production of both the German-speaking world and the broader European context. ![]() From a variety of theoretical perspectives, the contributors to this volume examine the interconnections between aesthetic and scientific fields of inquiry involved in Goethe's visual identity. The concept of visuality becomes a constitutive moment in a productive relationship between the verbal and visual arts with far-reaching implications for the formation of bourgeois identity, pedagogy, and culture. The essays in 'The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture' demonstrate the extent to which Goethe advanced this discourse in virtually all disciplines. ![]() ![]() Poets, painters, philosophers, and scientists alike debated new ways of thinking about visual culture in the "long eighteenth century". ![]()
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