JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE IN THE FIELD STURM UND DRANG AND KLASSIK IN THE BOURDIEU’S GENETIC STRUCTURALISM IN PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This research aims to describe (1) habitus, (2) capital, and (3) field owned by Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe in the Sturm und Drang and Klassik arena.This research uses an expressive approach utilizing Pierre Bourdieu's genetic structuralism theory. The source of data in research is Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Biografie by H. Doering. Data obtained by reading and note technique. Data are analyzed by using qualitative descriptive analysis technique. The validity of data is obtained through semantic validity and consulted with experts (expert judgment). The reliability of data is obtained through the intrarater and interrater reliability. The result of this research showed as follows, (1) Goethe's habitus includes education from his family, readingand writing habits, social relation, and adventure. (2) Goethe's capital includes the economic capital (wealth and servant), social capital (princes, intellectuals, writers, artists, and womens he once loved), cultural capital (character traits inherited from his parents, writing skill, language skill, ownership of cultural objects, knowledge of literary and artistic works, general knowledge, and the skill of creating literary works), and symbolic capital (social status and high position). (3) The field that Goethe strives for is the field of literature in the Sturm und Drang period with his major works Sesenheimer Lieder, Götz von Berlichingen, and Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, and in the Klassik period with his major works Iphigenie auf Tauris, Faust I and II, Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit, and West-östlicher Divan.

Keywords: biography, genetic structuralism.