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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Weatherby, Leif,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Forms of Living
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics --; Part I. Toward Organology --; Introduction --; 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 Organology --; 7. 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 --; Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, series editors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823269433; 9783110729023
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823269433?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Leif Weatherby.

Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs-a metaphysics meant to theorize, and ultimately alter, the structure of a politically and scientifically destabilized world.