Abstract This article reads Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre from the perspective of affect theory and focuses on the two elements of potentiality and mistake in the novel. In addition to its lexical meaning, the concept of affect emphasizes the transmissions of energy and force from body to body and between body and the world in time and space. Affect is intense and full of potential. Wilhelm’s theater project and love affairs are equally filled with intensity and potentiality for the future, which differs from Franco Moretti’s interpretation of Goethe’s novel as a backward-looking conservative work that disavows the French Revolution. Mignon’s death because to heart failure demonstrates the affective end of Wilhelm’s dream to become an artist and a bodily reaction to his turn toward pragmatism. Even though Wilhelm makes grave mistakes during the novel and his theater project in the end fails, which according to Jürgen Habermas reflects the transformation of the public sphere around 1800, Wilhelm is able to change and amend his mistakes and remain flexible and hopeful. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre thus contains a forward-looking vision and reveals hope as a public feeling of the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution.

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歌德的Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre中的希望：影响理论、潜力、错误和变化

摘要 本文从情感理论的角度解读约翰·沃尔夫冈·歌德的Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre，重点探讨小说中的潜力和错误两个要素。除了词汇意义外，情感的概念还强调能量和力量在时间和空间上从身体到身体以及身体与世界之间的传递。影响是强烈的，充满潜力。威廉的戏剧项目和爱情同样充满了未来的强度和潜力，这与弗兰科·莫雷蒂将歌德的小说解读为否定法国大革命的落后保守作品不同。米尼翁因心力衰竭而死，这表明威廉成为艺术家的梦想的情感终结，以及对他转向实用主义的身体反应。尽管威廉在小说中犯了严重的错误，最终他的戏剧计划失败了，据尤尔根·哈贝马斯说，这反映了1800年前后公共领域的转变，威廉能够改变和修正他的错误，保持灵活和充满希望。Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 因而包含了一种前瞻性的视野，并揭示了作为法国大革命后资产阶级的一种公众感情的希望。