"For readers of Colm Toibin's The Master and Michael Cunningham's The Hours, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love and the mysterious ways of art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and adults recite from his many works by memory. When he was a young poet, his first novel, a story of love and romantic fervor ending in suicide, was an international blockbuster that set off a...

A rock opera based on the play by Goethe.

This dissertation describes a dominant abstract modern frame of mind--termed object-thinking--as a root cause of unsustainability. I argue that for long-term sustainability we need a different kind of thinking, called living thinking, that is modeled after the dynamism, interconnectedness, and wholeness that informs the life of organisms and ecological processes in nature. The methodology of Goethean phenomenology is discussed and applied as a means...