RELAÇÕES ENTRE O ILUMINISMO ALEMÃO E A CONCEPÇÃO GOETHIANA DE FORMAÇÃO

Résumé

The genius found in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by the thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, consists precisely of the incomparable ability to delineate, through a bildungsroman, the construction of a protagonist in the service of another human dimension, long forgotten. It is against this background that the present article intends to analyze, as one of the main philosophical-literary questions of the eighteenth century, the terms culture [Kultur] and formation [Bildung], and then articulate them with Goethean considerations and those of the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. Thus, the main interest of this investigation is to think how the idea of ”‹”‹formation [Bildung], hitherto linked to the project of becoming, has been abandoned, and then another sense of edification of man is produced, this time associated with the interests of modern life.