Goethe’s Asses: Wilhelm Meister’s Apuleian Theology of Curiosity and the Prospect of a World Literature
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The following paper compares Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister to the Metamorphoses, also known as the Golden Ass, of Apuleius, arguing that the Meister-novels involve a subtle transformation of Apuleius’s novel of transformation. In this way I hope to argue that the putative realism of the modern novel should not be understood merely as the triumph of secularization, but in fact has a theological basis. At the center of this hidden theology of the novel is the concept of curiosity: Wilhelm Meister receives, and transforms, Apuleius’s treatment of curiosity. In contrast to Augustine, Apuleius will regard curiosity not as merely sinful, but as leading towards a certain kind of salvation. Wilhelm Meister will radicalize this theology of curiosity: curiosity saves us by initiating us into the world, understood not as the merely real opposed to the ideal and transcendent, but as nature in its abiding openness to change and transformation.
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The following paper compares Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister to the Metamorphoses, also known as the Golden Ass, of Apuleius, arguing that the Meister-novels involve a subtle transformation of Apuleius’s novel of transformation. In this way I hope to argue that the putative realism of the modern novel should not be understood merely as the triumph of secularization, but in fact has a theological basis. At the center of this hidden theology of the novel is the concept of curiosity: Wilhelm Meister receives, and transforms, Apuleius’s treatment of curiosity. In contrast to Augustine, Apuleius will regard curiosity not as merely sinful, but as leading towards a certain kind of salvation. Wilhelm Meister will radicalize this theology of curiosity: curiosity saves us by initiating us into the world, understood not as the merely real opposed to the ideal and transcendent, but as nature in its abiding openness to change and transformation.
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