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This is the main book being discussed in the episode. Andrea Wolff is the guest author, and the hosts describe it as 'a wonderful new book' about German Romantic philosophers in Jena during the 1790s.

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Mentioned as the novel that catapulted Goethe to international fame in the 1770s, described as 'a novel about a lovelorn man who commits suicide' that sparked a cultural phenomenon.

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Described as Goethe's 'most famous work,' discussed in the context of how the arrival of the Jena set reinvigorated Goethe to continue writing it after he had been stuck.

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Mentioned as Schiller's 'revolutionary play' that made him famous as Germany's most celebrated playwright.

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Described as 'a cycle of six poems' that Andrea Wolff calls 'some of the most exquisite poetry that the young romantics have produced,' written after the death of Novalis's young love Sophie von Kuhn.

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Referenced in the dramatic scene where Hegel puts 'his only copy' of the manuscript on a stagecoach out of Jena on the day before Napoleon's Battle of Jena.

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Referred to as 'my Humboldt book' by the guest author Andrea Wolff, mentioned when she explains her interest in history and how she examined the relationship between humankind and nature.