Goethe and the problem of individuality in the culture of the modern era

The Book of Dirk Keper, a representative of the cultural direction in German literary criticism, is devoted to the reconstruction of one of the central plots in the history of European culture - the establishment of the concept of individuality in the creative development of Goethe, from the "Weret" through the "Wilhelm Meister" to Poetry and Pravda. The stages of this formation are implemented by the author"s monograph, the paradigm of the self-determination of the modern personality, the person is modern. The philosophy of the personality at Goethe, the problem of her self-knowledge, its freedom and sovereignty, the conditions for its integration into the dominant picture of the world, the principles of its artistic image is disclosed by the author of the monograph on a deep background of the aesthetic and cultural philosophical thought of the new time. D. Keper"s research method is characterized by a combination of a traditional philological basis for the German science with the latest techniques for analyzing narrative structures, underlined attention to a literary and historical context with a latitude of a philosophical and anthropological approach