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    "name": "Works of Goethe",
    "stream": "western-european",
    "epoch_reflected": "current",
    "epoch_written": "current",
    "form": "scientific + literary works",
    "tradition": "Goethean science / German Romantic",
    "year_approx": 1800,
    "note": "Goethe's *Faust* (Parts I and II), *Theory of Colours*, and *The Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily*. Foundational works of German Romantic-Idealist culture; Steiner edited Goethe's scientific writings (Kürschner edition, 1883–1897) and described Anthroposophy as 'the extension of Goethean phenomenology into the supersensible.'",
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      "GA 1: Goethe's Conception of the World (1886)",
      "GA 6: Goethe's World View (1897)",
      "GA 22: The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity — *Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily*",
      "GA 277: Eurythmy as Visible Speech",
      "GA 291: The Nature of Colour — Goethe's *Theory of Colours*"
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      "slug": "faust",
      "name": "Faust (Parts I and II)",
      "author": "J.W. von Goethe",
      "year_approx": 1808,
      "translator": "Bayard Taylor, 1870 (Part I) / 1871 (Part II)",
      "form": "poetic drama",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Goethe's two-part poetic drama (Part I 1808; Part II 1832 posthumous) — the most-cited literary work in Steiner's lectures and the central modern document of the Faustian-Mephistophelean encounter. Bayard Taylor's 1870-1871 translation (archive.org goethetaylorfaust01 + 02).",
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      "slug": "theory-of-colours",
      "name": "Theory of Colours",
      "author": "J.W. von Goethe",
      "year_approx": 1810,
      "translator": "Charles Lock Eastlake, 1840",
      "form": "scientific-phenomenological treatise",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Goethe's 1810 phenomenological treatise opposing Newton's particle-and-spectrum theory — colour as the dynamic of light-and-darkness at their boundaries (the *Urphänomen*).",
      "chapter_count": 2,
      "word_count": 193380,
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      "slug": "green-snake-and-lily",
      "name": "The Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily",
      "author": "J.W. von Goethe",
      "year_approx": 1795,
      "translator": "Thomas Carlyle, 1832",
      "form": "mystery fairytale",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Goethe's 1795 *Märchen* embedded in the *Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten* — a mystery fairytale of bridges, snakes, lilies, and kings that Steiner devoted six lectures (GA 22) to interpreting esoterically. Thomas Carlyle's 1832 translation.",
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      "word_count": 11518,
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