Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Über den Dilettantismus [On Dilettantism]

Über den Dilettantismus [On Dilettantism] (c. 1799, pub. 1833) Inferred

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · c. 1799, pub. 1833

InferredFuller describes reading Goethe's 'sketch for a treatise on Dilettantism and Dilettanti.' This identifies the collaborative essay by Goethe and Schiller, 'Über den Dilettantismus' (c. 1799; published posthumously). Title is inferred from Fuller's description.

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Documented 1839

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1832
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1844
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Records of Conversations on Goethe and Art

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“Third eveg, I read his sketch for a treatise on Dilettantism and Dilettanti. – This gave rise to a good deal of conversation,”

Fuller, Margaret. "Records of Conversations on Goethe and Art." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller describes reading Goethe's 'sketch for a treatise on Dilettantism and Dilettanti.' This identifies the collaborative essay by Goethe and Schiller, 'Über den Dilettantismus' (c. 1799; published posthumously). Title is inferred from Fuller's description. Fuller describes it as 'his sketch for a treatise on Dilettantism and Dilettanti' — correctly identifying its unfinished, schematic character.

Fuller describes reading Goethe's 'sketch for a treatise on Dilettantism and Dilettanti.' This identifies the collaborative essay by Goethe and Schiller, 'Über den Dilettantismus' (c. 1799; published posthumously).