She’s also interesting, if a touch less convincing, on the seminal impact of all that Jena squabbling on the course of Western thought. Wulf is succinct and interesting on the various forces that crafted the moment she’s brought to life. In fact, the larger narrative of Magnificent Rebels is downright terrific, every bit as thoroughly researched as The Invention of Nature but even livelier and more evocative in its human details. Rave Open Letters Review Fortunately, her good sense saves her in these pages, she sticks Goethe (who only visited Jena, after all, but never actually signed a lease in town) firmly in the midst of a big cast - and because no other member of that cast is as obdurately monumental as Goethe (the only one who comes close is the poet Novalis), the larger narrative of Magnificent Rebels is saved.
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