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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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Forms of Living
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Introduction
- 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