2015
DOI: 10.1353/gyr.2015.0024
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Nature and the “Dark Pastoral” in Goethe’s Werther

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“…From her perspective, there is no vantage point from which humans can stand back and observe nature apart from themselves; we are all "in the mesh" together. 45 Sullivan focuses on Goethe's Sufferings of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, 1774), whose publication date coincides with the beginnings of the industrial revolution, the expansion of European imperialism, and the advent of the epoch now known as the Anthropocene. As Dipesh Chakrabarty explains, humans have always been biological agents, but since the eighteenth century they have taken on new powers: "In unwittingly destroying the artificial but timehonored distinction between natural and human histories, climate scientists posit that the human being has become something much larger than the simple biological agent that he or she always has been.…”
Section: Conclusion: Humboldt and The Anthropocenementioning
confidence: 99%
“…From her perspective, there is no vantage point from which humans can stand back and observe nature apart from themselves; we are all "in the mesh" together. 45 Sullivan focuses on Goethe's Sufferings of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, 1774), whose publication date coincides with the beginnings of the industrial revolution, the expansion of European imperialism, and the advent of the epoch now known as the Anthropocene. As Dipesh Chakrabarty explains, humans have always been biological agents, but since the eighteenth century they have taken on new powers: "In unwittingly destroying the artificial but timehonored distinction between natural and human histories, climate scientists posit that the human being has become something much larger than the simple biological agent that he or she always has been.…”
Section: Conclusion: Humboldt and The Anthropocenementioning
confidence: 99%