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Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ : German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx /

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world...

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Auteur principal: Weatherby, Leif
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY : Fordham University, 2016.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics; Part I. Toward Organology; 1. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach; 2. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder; 3. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ; Part II. Romantic Organology: Toward a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment; 4. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Hölderlin); 5. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology.
  • 6. Universal Organs: Novalis's Romantic Organology7. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology; Part III. After Organology; 8. Technologies of Nature: Goethe's Hegelian Transformations; 9. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z.