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The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature /
This book evaluates the early history of embodied cognition. It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920: The Lebenskraft-Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Establishing Parameters: Lebenskraft and Artifact; 1. Introduction: Life Matters; 2. Pneuma
- Sexuality
- Sex Difference: From Arabic to European Philosophy and Medical Practice; 3. Ordnung des Lebendigen. Naturgeschichtliche Malereien im Kabinett der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle; 4. Haller, Unzer, and Science as Process; Blood, Nerves, Resonance.
- 5. Lebenskraft, the Body and Will Power: The Life Force in German Musical Aesthetics6. Ritter's Musical Blood Flow Through Hoffmann's Kreisler; 7. Romantic Vitalism and Homeopathy's Law of Minimum; 8. Folklore and Physiology: The Vitality of Blood in the Works of the Brothers Grimm; Fitness and Fitting In; 9. Fitness, Nerves, the Degenerate Body and Identity: Radical Reality and Modernity in Max Nordau's Aesthetics and Fiction; 10. No Body? Radical Gender in Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years (1907).
- 11. Naturphilosophie and Murder: The Limits of Scientific Explanation in Döblin's Die beiden FreundinnenThe Lebenskraft-Debate Recast: The Posthuman and Radical Mediation; 12. Agency in the Anthropocene: Goethe, Radical Reality, and the New Materialisms; 13. Lebenskraft, Radical Reality, and Occidental Medicine: How Science is Leading us back to a Holistic View"; Epiloque: Lebenskraft Legacies; Select Bibliography; Biographical Notes on the Contributors.