David Wellbery (UChicago German, Social Thought) joins us to discuss Goethe’s work, life, and milieu. He describes Goethe’s position at the center of an intellectual and artistic world which included Schiller, Hölderlin, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, the Schlegels, the Humboldts, and many other intellectual and scientific figures of the period. This episode will give listeners a sense of Goethe’s astonishingly various achievements in literature and natural philosophy.