Gregory Maertz. Literature and the Cult of Personality: Essays on Goethe and His Influence. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2017. 278 pp.

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1 I use “myth-making” because I am not entirely convinced that Maertz’s concept of “cult of personality” is entirely clear or ideally suited to the phenomenon in question.

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Kirk Wetters

Kirk Wetters is a professor in Yale University’s department of Germanic Languages and Literature. His current work pursues questions of legitimacy, illegitimacy, and legitimation in a wide range of literary and theoretical authors. His two monographs are Demonic History from Goethe to the Present (Northwestern UP, 2014) and The Opinion System: Impasses of the Public Sphere from Hobbes to Habermas (Fordham UP, 2008). He has also produced two co-edited volumes: Das Dämonische: Schicksale einer Kategorie der Zweideutigkeit (Fink, 2014) and Hans Blumenberg (Telos 158, 2012).