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Contagion : sexuality, disease, and death in German idealism and romanticism /
"Although the Romantic Age is usually thought of as idealizing nature as the source of birth, life, and creativity, David Farrell Krell focuses on the preoccupation of three key German Romantic thinkers - Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel - with nature's destructive powers: contagion, disease,...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Studies in Continental thought.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE. THAUMATURGIC IDEALISM: NOVALIS'S SCIENTIFIC-PHILOSOPHICAL NOTEBOOKS OF 1798-1800. The first kiss
- A poetics of the baneful
- Touching, contact, contagion
- The artist of immortality
- PART TWO. TORMENTED IDEALISM: SCHELLING'S FIRST PROJECTION OF A SYSTEM OF NATURE PHILOSOPHY (1799). First projection: an outline of the whole
- Sexual opposition, inhibition, contagion
- The bridge to death
- The ultimate source of life
- PART THREE. TRIUMPHANT IDEALISM: HEGEL'S EARLY PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE IN THE JENA REALPHILOSOPHIE OF 1805/06. Nature's seductive impotence
- Turned to the outside: the dialectic of genitality
- Turned to the inside: the dialectic of death
- Conclusion: A triumph of ashes
- Notes
- Annotated bibliography
- Index.