Abstract

From Haym and Haering to Fulda and Pöggeler, among many others, these questions have been discussed for nearly a century and a half. Fortunately, Forster is dissatisfied with the answers that have been given, for it is to that discontent that we owe this massive and magisterial revisiting of these questions. Since they structure the analysis, this is not a commentary in any sequential sense, although all parts of the text are discussed.