Faust by Goethe is a dramatic play that traces the adventure and wandering of Modern European spirit in the transition period from Medieval feudalism to Modern capitalism. The Lord lays a wager with Mephistopheles on the possibility of redeeming human beings. For Mephistopheles as a cynical nihilist, man uses reason, the divine light solely for the purpose of degrading him/herself into the state of an animal and substantially ends up with a beast. For the Lord, however, man naturally wanders yet seeks permanently to find a right path. At Gretchen`s expense as the first victim, Faust and Mephistopheles launch their errant adventure into the world. The thrust of this essay is thus to grasp the continuum between modern European spirit and our contemporary by tracing the oppositional relationship between the protagonist Faust and the antagonist Mephistopheles. Goethe once pronounced that his life-long task was to confirm and testify to the supremacy of spirit over material, which is tantamount to his whole-hearted endeavor to overcome the process of reification. The reason of the Western Enlightenment has exposed human beings to environmental disasters by designing blasphemously spiritual domination of nature in lieu of spiritual supremacy over material. Thanks to human labor, man and nature as his/her home can communicate successfully. However, the tragedy of the civilization of modern industrialization arises from the loss of the affinity between man and nature which is in part due to the distortion of human labor by an instrumental reason. Man is bound to wander as far as s/he pursues, as the Lord points out, which is dramatically substantiated in Faust as an errant adventure into the world. The self-awareness of error and wandering amounts to an ethical pathos approximating the truth, since wandering presupposes reason. At the final phase of his errant adventure into the world, Faust stands before nature nakedly and in solitude; he is now freed from the magic incantation and spell cast by Mephistopheles. The light of redemption permeates the empty space divested of superstition and ghosts. The culminating scene of ‘high mountains and deep valleys’ is a dramatic rendering of the transformation in the guise of religious conversion. In an attempt to gratify the unquenchable thirst for knowledge, limitless desires and avarice, Faust is thrown into the crucible of capital, power and wars in order to be reborn as a New Man. His fate is probably a touchstone or a beacon for the rightful direction of our contemporary spirit. Devoid of thoughtful reflection and warm-hearted consideration, our contemporary reality is overcast with the dark cloud of instrumental reason. Without voluntary efforts to save him/herself, man may not be blessed with redemption. Only those who fight for his own freedom and life are credited for enjoying them. In a word, Faust demonstrates to us how we can realize human potentials by launching an unflagging journey to overcome fetishism and reification rampant in our age.