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ISIS HAS NO VEILS

ISIS HAS NO VEILS COLUMNS Pierre Hadot Translated by Michael Chase In 1814, when the archduke Karl August returned from a trip to England, there was a celebration at Weimar to mark his homecoming. Goethe had the town’s drawing school decorated with eight paintings that were intended to symbolize the various arts and the protection Karl August accorded to them.1 Among these symbolic figures executed in the style of emblems, there was one that represented “Genius Unveiling a Bust of Nature,” with Nature represented in her traditional aspect as Isis/Artemis. In the distant background, behind the figure, a landscape could be seen, which contrasted strongly with the somewhat artificial atmosphere created by this statue of Nature unveiled. Goethe used these same pictures to decorate his own house for the jubilee of Karl August on September 3, 1825, and for his own jubilee, or more precisely for the anniversary of his entry into the service of the archduke, on November 7 of the same year. This material is excerpted from The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature, by Pierre Hadot, to be published in October 2006 by Harvard University Press. 1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Weimars http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

ISIS HAS NO VEILS

Common Knowledge , Volume 12 (3) – Oct 1, 2006

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Duke University Press
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© 2006 by Duke University Press
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0961-754X
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10.1215/0961754X-2006-001
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COLUMNS Pierre Hadot Translated by Michael Chase In 1814, when the archduke Karl August returned from a trip to England, there was a celebration at Weimar to mark his homecoming. Goethe had the town’s drawing school decorated with eight paintings that were intended to symbolize the various arts and the protection Karl August accorded to them.1 Among these symbolic figures executed in the style of emblems, there was one that represented “Genius Unveiling a Bust of Nature,” with Nature represented in her traditional aspect as Isis/Artemis. In the distant background, behind the figure, a landscape could be seen, which contrasted strongly with the somewhat artificial atmosphere created by this statue of Nature unveiled. Goethe used these same pictures to decorate his own house for the jubilee of Karl August on September 3, 1825, and for his own jubilee, or more precisely for the anniversary of his entry into the service of the archduke, on November 7 of the same year. This material is excerpted from The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature, by Pierre Hadot, to be published in October 2006 by Harvard University Press. 1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Weimars

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