Key Thinkers: John Armstrong on Goethe

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Published 2013-05-02
Part 1 | Part 2Adding to the Key Thinkers seminar series at the University of Melbourne, John Armstrong, Philosopher-in-Residence at the Melbourne Business School and senior...

All Comments (18)
  • @gbaviere
    Thank you very much for posting this. Dr. Armstrong has a wonderful take on Goethe and the book is incredibly well written and beautifully put together. Great book. Great lecture.
  • @SuperMerlin13
    Wonderfully presented with key insights and deep scholarship into Goethe’s work.
  • @BWreSlippySlope
    Watched 17 minutes and it is Goethe as a person. He was a Philosopher, musician etc, and we are talking about personality.
  • @Rico-Suave_
    Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 30:26
  • John sounds like Boudewijn Buch hé also was fascinated with Goethe
  • @ericemericaful
    Your presence does not justify its pretense. I hope you understand what I mean. When I had a problem with my presence, someone got honest and plain with me. Stung... to be sure! But, i wish i could thank him today.
  • @mieliav
    did he imagine a separate library of lives for the women? or did women not actually become adults? did goethe himself discuss this at all?
  • @jaredfields1517
    Holy shit this video should be titled John Armstrong on Himself with a sidenote about Goethe.
  • A movie - Murder on the Orient Express - brought me to Goethe and the beautiful German language. A famous German actress recites Mignon Lied and it was so beautiful I decided to learn German and I then read most of Goethe's work in German. His work is proof that German really is the language of love - more so than French or Latin. This lecture is dull and uninspiring and a load of ...... I am outta here.
  • @SuperMerlin13
    Wonderfully presented with key insights and deep scholarship into Goethe’s work.