Introduction: Goethe’s Italian Journey. Imitation, Initiation, and Discovery of the secret sacred self.

If you’re trying to find one of the fundamental sources for how we have learned to think, live and behave as authenticity driven modern people, Goethe is the man. And if one wants to find the turning point of his life, the kairos, the genius loci, that would propel Goethe forward in this evolutionary development – it was his Italian journey. 

 

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