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This study is the first to examine in detail the cultural significance of Goethes scientific work. It explores the subtle distinctions he made between the Amateur and the Expert, and the interplay between Enlightenment science and RomanticismsMoreThis study is the first to examine in detail the cultural significance of Goethes scientific work. It explores the subtle distinctions he made between the Amateur and the Expert, and the interplay between Enlightenment science and Romanticisms Nature-Philosophy, and attempts to set Goethes thinking into the context he consistently evoked, of the preceding three millennia of scientific thought. Analysing his complex perception of the cultural centrality of aesthetics, worked out in collaboration with his friend and fellow writer Schiller, the study concludes that Goethes modes of thought differed from both the Enlightenment and the Romantic traditions, prefiguring the process-thinkers of the twentieth century. Goethes Conception of Knowledge and Science by R.H. Stephenson
