Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ : : German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx / / 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 t...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Forms of Living
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |