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... ideal obligation , but the vital urge is stronger in them than the ability to pursue the ideal they have chosen . The Ahnfrau her- self is subjected to the conflict between ideal will and vital urge ; the adultery , for which she must ...
... ideal obligation , but the vital urge is stronger in them than the ability to pursue the ideal they have chosen . The Ahnfrau her- self is subjected to the conflict between ideal will and vital urge ; the adultery , for which she must ...
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... ideal is coupled with a voluptuous sensuality , and it is completely lost in uncontrollable passion when he realizes that the object of his love is his own sister . Thus his ideal is , in part at least , responsible for the final ...
... ideal is coupled with a voluptuous sensuality , and it is completely lost in uncontrollable passion when he realizes that the object of his love is his own sister . Thus his ideal is , in part at least , responsible for the final ...
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... ideal intentions and degrades them to the level of materialistic and egotistic dependence . There remains only the late idealistic retreat into a world free from all striving for external values and content in the seclusion of the self ...
... ideal intentions and degrades them to the level of materialistic and egotistic dependence . There remains only the late idealistic retreat into a world free from all striving for external values and content in the seclusion of the self ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE HERITAGE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 7 |
THE CULMINATION OF IDEALISM IN THE EARLY | 15 |
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absolute action active Agnes Bernauer artistic attitude becomes belief Blanka catastrophe causality character complete conception concrete conflict consciousness dasz death decision degeneration demands Der fliegende Holländer desire despair Die Familie Schroffenstein disillusionment drama egotistic emotional energies environment essentially esthetic evolution evolutionary process existence experience expression fate fight final freedom Grabbe Grabbe's Grillparzer Grillparzer's guilt Gyges harmony Hebbel higher historical human Ibsen idea ideal idealistic individual inner instincts interpretation John Gabriel Borkman Kandaules Kleist's Leben live Lohengrin Ludwig Maria Magdalene Mariamne marriage materialistic meaning ment metaphysical mind moral motivation murder nature norms organic Otto Ludwig Parsifal passion Penthesilea philosophy prince-elector principle problem rational realistic reality realization reason relation responsible romantic sacrifice Schiller's Schopenhauer sensual situation spite stage striving symbol sympathetic sympathy Tannhäuser tendencies tion tradition tragedy tragic transcend Tristan und Isolde truth vitality Wagner Welt world view Woyzeck