For For readers interested in Goethe or in what Schweitzer took from him; not essential for his theology.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
His 1932 Frankfurt address on the centenary of Goethe's death, on Goethe as thinker and man. A short occasional piece.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The address Schweitzer gave in Frankfurt am Main on 22 March 1932, the hundredth anniversary of Goethe's death, published the same year. Schweitzer had received the city's Goethe Prize in 1928 and regarded Goethe as one of the thinkers who had most shaped him. The address presents Goethe as a man whose thought was bound up with action and with nature. It was later collected in English with his other Goethe speeches.
