John wolfgang von Goethe,a renowned German poet and writer, was first known to Chinese in the late 19th century,His name and masterpice "Faust" appeared in works of Chinese diplomats and overseas students su...John wolfgang von Goethe,a renowned German poet and writer, was first known to Chinese in the late 19th century,His name and masterpice "Faust" appeared in works of Chinese diplomats and overseas students such as Li Fengbac and Gu Hongmig.And it was Ma Junwu who first translated Goethe's works into Chinese.展开更多
Am 26. August 1813 f(?)hrt Goethe in einer Kutsche durch das Ilmtal. Auf dem Weg zwischen Weimar und Stadtilm entsteht das Gedicht Gefunden. In Stadtilm schreibt er das Gedicht auf zwei kleine Bl(?)tter, faltet diese ...Am 26. August 1813 f(?)hrt Goethe in einer Kutsche durch das Ilmtal. Auf dem Weg zwischen Weimar und Stadtilm entsteht das Gedicht Gefunden. In Stadtilm schreibt er das Gedicht auf zwei kleine Bl(?)tter, faltet diese zu ei- nem Brief, siegelt den Brief und adressiert ihn an'Frau von Goethe'.展开更多
This paper critically reexamines the canonical utopic scene from the end of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust II(1832)through the writings of the British-born Yale physicist Dr.William Francis Gray Swann(1884-196...This paper critically reexamines the canonical utopic scene from the end of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust II(1832)through the writings of the British-born Yale physicist Dr.William Francis Gray Swann(1884-1962),who composed one hundred years later a book on the philosophy of contemporary physical science titled The Architecture o f the Universe(1934).In his text,Swann invokes the instrumentalization of atomic energy in a bargain to defeat a cosmic anxiety borne from the modem temporal experience of entropy,a pact whose culmination is akin to Faust's seminal turning away of the ghost Sorge(Care),with strong ramifications for the future postatomic world order.The physical initiation of this“zero hour”is best known through the work of Swann’s Ph.D.student,Ernest Orlando Lawrence,who went on to pioneer the mass separation of electromagnetic isotopes at Oak Ridge.This paper will posit the Manhattan Project as part of the legacy of a pre-war universal imaginary,in order to introduce a new critical reading o f utopia in Germany's greatest poet.展开更多
文摘John wolfgang von Goethe,a renowned German poet and writer, was first known to Chinese in the late 19th century,His name and masterpice "Faust" appeared in works of Chinese diplomats and overseas students such as Li Fengbac and Gu Hongmig.And it was Ma Junwu who first translated Goethe's works into Chinese.
文摘Am 26. August 1813 f(?)hrt Goethe in einer Kutsche durch das Ilmtal. Auf dem Weg zwischen Weimar und Stadtilm entsteht das Gedicht Gefunden. In Stadtilm schreibt er das Gedicht auf zwei kleine Bl(?)tter, faltet diese zu ei- nem Brief, siegelt den Brief und adressiert ihn an'Frau von Goethe'.
文摘This paper critically reexamines the canonical utopic scene from the end of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust II(1832)through the writings of the British-born Yale physicist Dr.William Francis Gray Swann(1884-1962),who composed one hundred years later a book on the philosophy of contemporary physical science titled The Architecture o f the Universe(1934).In his text,Swann invokes the instrumentalization of atomic energy in a bargain to defeat a cosmic anxiety borne from the modem temporal experience of entropy,a pact whose culmination is akin to Faust's seminal turning away of the ghost Sorge(Care),with strong ramifications for the future postatomic world order.The physical initiation of this“zero hour”is best known through the work of Swann’s Ph.D.student,Ernest Orlando Lawrence,who went on to pioneer the mass separation of electromagnetic isotopes at Oak Ridge.This paper will posit the Manhattan Project as part of the legacy of a pre-war universal imaginary,in order to introduce a new critical reading o f utopia in Germany's greatest poet.
