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The romantic conception of life : science and philosophy in the age of Goethe /
"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Science and its conceptual foundations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : A most happy encounter
- pt. 1. The early Romantic movement in literature, philosophy, and science. The early Romantic movement
- Schelling : the poetry of nature
- Denouement : farewell to Jena
- pt. 2. Scientific foundations of the Romantic conception of life. Early theories of development : Blumenbach and Kant
- Kielmeyer and the organic powers of nature
- Johann Christian Reil's Romantic theories of life and mind, or rhapsodies on a cat-piano
- Schelling's dynamic evolutionism
- Conclusion : Mechanism, teleology, and evolution
- pt. 3. Goethe, a genius for poetry, morphology, and women. The erotic authority of nature
- Goethe's scientific revolution
- Conclusion : The history of a life in art and science
- pt. 4. Epilogue. The Romantic conception of life
- Darwin's Romantic biology.