Vom politischen Ideal zum politischen Idyll: Die Rezeption von Fénelons Télémaque durch Haller und Wieland

Abstract

Abstract Two generations after the publication of Fénelon’s Aventures de Télémaque (1699), the educational model of rulership it proposed began to crumble. While Albrecht von Haller tries to revive this model in his novel Usong (1771), Wieland demonstrates in his Goldner Spiegel (1772) that Télémaque figures only as an idyllic memory: instead of renewing old ideals, Wieland’s complex story marks the end of all idealistic purposes of aristocratic education.