FROM FAUST TO PROMETHEUS
On Goethe, Marlowe, and Spengler
The Western spirit has been disastrously misnamed “Faustian” when, in truth, it is Promethean. Beginning with Goethe’s Faust, passing through Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and culminating in a critique of Spengler, I show that Faust is not the archetypal origin of the West but a late, Christianized symptom of its struggle to recover an older and deeper archetype: Prometheus.
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