Abstract
The study of the novel Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants [Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden] (1829), the object of this proposed research, aims to provide an original contribution to the history of the socialism, of the nascent sociology and, by extension, of the Marxism. We intend to investigate the social thought expressed in the novel and its relati…