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This article proposes a definition of Johnson’s popular term, the ‘good hater’, in order to explore his ideas about malicious conversation and criticism. Good hating was a conversational and critical ideal for Johnson, in contrast to ‘bad hating’ – hatred motivated by malice or malignity – which threatened civil discourse. Johnson’s own malice and ‘roughness’ are a vexed question in biographies by...
Aus der Begegnung zwischen Goethe und Schiller im Juli 1794 in Jena wird eine tiefe Freundschaft, die sich durch einen intensiven Briefwechsel bis zum frühzeitigen Tod Schillers im Jahre 1805 nähren wird. Dieser formal klassische Briefwechsel, der dem Brief öfters einen kritischen Freiraum verleiht oder ihm die Funktion eines Labors des künstlerischen oder literarischen Schaffens gibt, zeichnet sich...
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