Why did he want to be ruled by Napoleon so badly
>>25267800He's a retard and germs should be embarrassed that this is the closest they have to a decent poet.
>>25267800my boi had drip tho
>>25267800Because Napleon was laying waste to anachronistic relics of the past (and because Napoleon flattered him about Werther)
>>25267849Goethe may have been a lot of things, but a retard he was not. Holderlin is brilliant too you faggot.
>>25267858Napoleon was an og Werthercel
Exempt from mass conscription while enforcing it, classic cuck.>In 1812, the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe served as a high-ranking minister, contributed roughly 800 to 900>The campaign was nearly a total death sentence for the men from Weimar. Historians estimate that out of the roughly 800–900 who marched east, fewer than 50 returned home. This staggering loss was a major reason why the German states eventually turned against Napoleon in 1813>The War Commission: Goethe served on the commission responsible for military affairs. He had to sign the orders that sent these young men, many from families he knew, to their deaths.>The "Great Silence": In his diaries and letters, he often used the word "terrible" (schrecklich) to describe the news, but he rarely elaborated on the human suffering. He preferred to focus on "the stability of order" that he believed Napoleon represented, despite the horrific cost.>Perhaps most controversially, Goethe’s respect for Napoleon did not collapse after the 1812 catastrophe."The Incarnation of Energy": Even after the destruction of the Weimar contingent, Goethe continued to view Napoleon as a "demonic" genius... not in an evil sense, but as a force of nature. Resistance to Nationalism: While other German intellectuals (like Fouqué) used the 1812 disaster to fuel a "violent hatred" of the French, Goethe remained steadfastly cosmopolitan. He famously asked, "How could I hate a nation which is one of the most civilized on earth?".
>>25268255He turned out right
Why did Napoleon persuade everyone he was the playable character of an RPG "The World Spirit on horseback" said Hegel, who was presumably a heterosexual male
>>25267800He was a cosmopolitan. Today he would've supported globalization and the EU
>>25268255>Exempt from mass conscriptionAt the age of 62? Yeah. He‘d been at Valmy twenty years before. Notably among the French this invasion caused opinion on Napoleon to sour gradually through 1813-1814 before swinging right back to near-unanimous enthusiasm for the Hundred Days because the Bourbons were as much a pack of effete ivory tower shitheads the moment they got back on the throne that nobody really wondered anymore why they all got the axe.
German unification was a failed project until 1939. All sorts of interesting representations occur to the mind of a subaltern.
>>25267889*WertherCHAD
>>25271230>support globalization and the EUevery intelligent person do
>>25267800Everyone with a brain did/does. The clever people with ancestral history of loyalty to the families replaced by his brothers or his marshals opposed him on personal grounds but the new French conceptions of law, administration, and nationality were adopted everywhere, and certainly where Goethe lived, unfortunately with retarded twists that Goethe opposed that will end up being morphed into its trannified version of nu-prussianism. Besides Napoleon and the literary circles close to him were also shills for Goethe in return. He might never have become the bog standard name of German language literature without their patronage.
>>25269326there werent many people who had a better argument than him
>>25267800He had a small penis. He admired a man for having a small penis. But that’s just my (admittedly correct) theory.
>>25271541And with that. /thread
