This episode looks at the modern, ironic portrayal of Mephistopheles in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (ca. 1800), which suggests some future directions for a relatively harmless and even powerless Satan in the modern period. Podcast 8.23: Goethe’s Ironic Mephistopheles (ca. 1800) (mp3; archive.org page with various downloading options here). Download audio file (Podcast%208.23%20Goethe%27s%20Ironic%20Mephistopheles%20(1700s-1800s).mp3) You […]

Podcast 8.23: Goethe’s Ironic Mephistopheles (ca. 1800)

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Podcast 8.23: Goethe’s Ironic Mephistopheles (ca. 1800)

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