The Aesthetics of Weimar Classicism, Ernst Cassirer, and the German Tradition of Thought

“Binary Synthesis”: Goethe's Aesthetic Intuition in Literature and Science

“…In fact, the insistence on the crucial role of sensitivity to the material medium in the achievement of an organistic understanding of the world is the defining characteristic of the temper of the aesthetic, scientific, and broader cultural, theory of Weimar Classicism. That is to say, it would seem reasonable to assume that, where the form of conceptualization in Weimar Classicism and in a later writer is similar, it is possible to discern shared (and often demonstrably linked) participation in a perennial concern with aesthetic value (Stephenson 2005). .…”

“…Everything depends in this context on the morphology of ideas, as distinct from merely verbal likeness. That is to say, it would seem reasonable to assume that, where the form of conceptualization in Weimar Classicism and in a later writer is similar, it is possible to discern shared (and often demonstrably linked) participation in a perennial concern with aesthetic value (Stephenson 2005).…”