![]() ![]() By extending the reference of an established chemical theory to encompass social interactions, according to Adler, the novel provides the basis for a universal theory of affinity. Max Weber, used Goethe's conception of human "elective affinities" to formulate a large part of his sociology Jeremy Adler, a German historian, in "Goethe’s Elective Affinity and the Chemistry of its Time", 1987, studied Goethe’s use of chemical theory. ![]() Goethe outlined the view that passion, marriage, conflict, and free-will are all subject to the laws of chemistry and in which the lives of human species are regulated no differently than the lives of chemical species. They are described as chemical species, whose amorous affairs and relationships were predetermined via chemical affinities, similar to the pairings of alchemical species. Fiction, Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple both in their second marriage, invite the Captain, Eduard’s childhood friend, and Ottilie, the beautiful, orphaned, coming-of-age daughter of Charlotte’s deceased best-friend, to live with them. ![]()
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