Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy

In the decades after its publication, Goethe''s Wilhelm Meister''s Apprenticeship served as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest novels of the German canon. But in the decades and centuries following, the attention it has received in both disciplines has diminished in compar...