J. W. Goethe: The Way of Life and Philosophy of Art

Is it possible today, within the framework of history philosophy, to reconstruct life path one philosophers, resorting recipes subsequent researchers — especially when these followers did their creative works a couple centuries after those who they should describe? Today empiricism dominates in humanities: flat facts are grasped on large scale and summed up everyday spaces, results correct only here now. It is way write biographies “big masses”. But some geniuses live “in isolation” not relying standards, laying flat, unwillingly turning lives back, rising above bustle. To what extent can describe this manner existentialism moving from inauthentic existence borderline situations and, further, genuine existence, which was never properly built?