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Mellen, Philip
Gerhart Hauptmann
Religious Syncretism and Eastern Religions
Series: American University Studies - Volume 24
Year of Publication: 1983
New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Nancy, 1984. XI, 328 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8204-0060-0 pb.
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Weight: 0.550 kg, 1.213 lbs
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Book synopsis
For public consumption Gerhart Hauptmann was Germany's greatest naturalist writer. Another, private existence is however revealed in and by the religious studies he undertook from ca. 1885 to 1945. His quest for that which underlies man's diverse perspectives of the supernatural and binds them into a whole leads him to study Christianity, eastern religions, the writings of Jacob Boehme, etc. Material from Hauptmann's notebooks, diaries, marginalia from his personal library, and a careful examination of the texts he actually read, show the effects of this preoccupation on his thinking and works, as well as explains his intense interest in German mysticism and the philosophies of the East.
Contents
Contents: Christianity-Alchemy - Buddhism-Schopenhauer - Hinduism - Taoism-Confucianism - Gnosticism - Jacob Boehme - Michael Kramer-Indipohdi - Der neue Christophorus.
Reviews
«Die Ergebnisse sind erstaunlich. Es fällt nicht nur neues Licht auf Michael Kramer, Indipohdi und vor allem auf den Neuen Christophorus (die ausführlicher behandelt werden), sondern auch auf zahllose andere Werke und die ganze Person des Dichters.» (Alfred Anger, Germanistik)
Series
American University Studies: Series 1, Germanic Languages and Literature. Vol. 24