Goethe

Satan Among Skeptics

by Peter J. Leithart

Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita borrows from Faust but to a very different purpose from Goethe's. Continue Reading »

Leaving Riga

by Thomas Pfau

Romanticism: A German Affair by rüdiger safranski northwestern, 376 pages, $35 During the early Romantic era, subjective sentiments and an often solipsistic quest for personal fulfillment began to challenge Enlightenment ­ideals of rational dialogue. John Keats’s 1817 plea “for a life of . . . . Continue Reading »