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Titel: Die Leiden des jungen Werther
Autor:: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Erzähler: Karlheinz Gabor
Format: Unabridged
Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 34 mins
Sprache: Deutsch
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-22-14
Herausgeber: Audio Media Digital
Kategorien: Classics, European Literature
Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:
Werther, ein intelligenter, hochsensibler, schwärmerischer junger Mann, verliebt sich in Lotte, die zumindest seine Begeisterung über Natur und Liebe, seine empfindsame Gefühlssprache erwidert. Als ihr Verlobter, der brave Albert, von einer Reise heimkehrt, schließt man Freundschaft, doch Werthers Eifersucht wird, wie seine Briefe verraten, immer drängender. Von der Gewitterszene als Gipfel, die zum scheinbaren Einklang der Herzen führt, folgt der Weg in die Katastrophe.
Das war der erste Bestseller der Literaturgeschichte. Seit vielen Generationen leidet die Jugend mit ihrem schwärmerischen Helden mit. Ewig zeitlos - ewig modern.
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An incisive critique of bourgeois vices
In the Enlightenment attempt to justify the institutions of bourgeois liberalism, one of the most glaring failures is the case of punishment. The Enlightenment can prove that a certain kind of peace is possible among those who accept its peculiar form of bourgeois reason. But the cruel treatment of dissenters who are either unable or unwilling to accept this sort of rationalityâfor this the Enlightenment has no justification. In a conversation with his bourgeois rival Albert, Werther brings up this unpaid debt of the Enlightenment. What should we say about a thief who steals to feed his starving children? Who would cast the first stone at him?
A man overcome with passion, says Albert, loses his senses, as if he were drunk or insane. Rational, reasonable bourgeois people like Albert designate the dissenter who refuses to accept their form of rationality as an outsider, who, because of his so-called irrationality is unworthy of sympathy. The cold-blooded cruelty of the bourgeois regime is rationalized by precisely such dehumanization of its victims.
The fundamental principle of the Enlightenment, as Kant would articulate it, is that each individual mind must overcome its self-imposed immaturity and learn to think without guidance from another. While the middle class of the eighteenth century were proud that the philosophical representatives of their age had overcome the superstitions of earlier ages and emerged from their state of self-imposed immaturity, individual bourgeois minds were by no means prepared to make this emergence themselves.
Werther is frustrated because he speaks âfrom his whole heart,â while Albert only replies with âmeaningless platitudes.â Albert canât be forced to think about who will cast the first stone at the poor thief, because public institutions, which feel no mercy, are perfectly willing to cast the stone on his behalf. Albert isnât forced to think. Therefore, he doesnât want to think. To this end, he has at his disposal many rough and ready phrases that can defuse such uncomfortable questions without demanding even the slightest glimmer of sincere thought. The bourgeois mind remains in its own peculiar state of self-imposed immaturity, in which phrases prepared in advance under the guidance of others can be assembled without guidance from others, but individual words cannot.
We might draw an analogy between Wertherâs frustrated attempts to draw Albert into a sincere debate about bourgeois morality and Socratesâ frustrated attempts to embroil his conversation partners in serious philosophical debates.