This culture’s “infinity-seeking” tendencies inspired Gothic art, according to a theory in which it is the most recent Hochkultur. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this culture which developed around 1000 CE, displacing the Magian culture of the Middle East and the Apollonian culture of the Romans, according to Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of The West.
ANSWER: Faustian culture [or Faustische Kultur]
[10m] This essay notes that Faust “believed in God enough to sell himself to the Devil” in a section contrasting him with Don Juan, whom this essay analyzes alongside “the actor” and “the conqueror.”
ANSWER: The Myth of Sisyphus [or Le mythe de Sisyphe]
[10e] This thinker’s essays “Representative Men” praised the second part of Goethe’s Faust as “a philosophy of literature set in poetry.” His other essays, such as “Nature” and “The Over-Soul,” espoused transcendentalism.
ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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