Tradition
Weimar Classicism
Overview
Weimar Classicism (German: Weimarer Klassik) was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It was named after the city of Weimar in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar because its leading authors lived there.
The Weimarer Klassik movement began in 1771 when Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel invited the Seyler Theatre Company led by Abel Seyler, pioneers of the Sturm und Drang movement, to her court in Weimar. The Seyler company was soon thereafter followed by Christoph Martin Wieland, then Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder and finally Friedrich Schiller. The movement was eventually centred upon Goethe and Schiller, previously also exponents of the Sturm und Drang movement, during the period of 1786–1805.
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In Germany, not more than a century ago, a natural instinct for what is called "poetry" was awakened in some young men. Are we to think that the generations who had lived before that time had not spoken of the art, however really strange and unnatural it may have been to them?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
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While both schools sought to trace out the identity of the practical principles of virtue and happiness, they were not agreed as to the way in which they tried to force this identity, but were separated infinitely from one another, the one placing its principle on the side of sense, the other on that of reason; the one in the consciousness of sensible wants, the other in the independence of practical reason on all…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
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But, so far as we can see, it is contingent that the order of nature according to its particular laws, in all its variety and heterogeneity possibly at least transcending our comprehension, should be actually conformable to these [laws]. The discovery of this [order] is the business of the Understanding which is designedly borne towards a necessary purpose, viz.
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
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Philosophers who discussed Weimar Classicism
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- German Enlightenment
- German language
- Immanuel Kant
- German Romanticism
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Latin
- Neoclassicism
- Theory of Colours
- Culture
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Platonism
- Aristippus
- Romanticism
- Abdera, Thrace
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Age of Enlightenment
- Humanism
- Sturm und Drang
- Goethe's Faust
- Cultural movement
- Friedrich Schiller
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.