Discovering the human : life science and the arts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / / Ralf Haekel, Sabine Blackmore (eds.).

• TeilnehmendeR: Haekel, Ralf.; Blackmore, Sabine.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

'Discovering the Human' investigates the emergence of the modern human sciences and their impact on literature, art and other media in the 18th and 19th centuries. Up until the 1830s, science and culture were part of a joint endeavour to discover and explore the secret of life. The question 'What is life?' unites science and the arts during the Ages of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and at the end of the Romantic period, a shift of focus from the human as an organic whole to the specialized disciplines signals the dawning of modernity. The emphasis of the edited collection is threefold: the fi

Table of Contents

Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Ralf Haekel & Sabine Blackmore: Discovering the Human - An Introduction; 1. Historical Transitions; 2. Life; 3. Language; 4. Classification; 5. Science and Art; 6. Discovering the Human; References; I. Eighteenth-Century Science and the Arts; Christoph Heyl: William Hogarth, Science and Human Nature; References; Mascha Hansen: Scientifick Wives - Eighteenth-Century Women Between Self, Society and Science; References; Primary Literature; Secondary Literature

Sladja Blazan: Immanuel Kant''s "One Great Republic" - From Spirit Theory to Moral PhilosophyThe Immaterial World; Secret Power; One Great Republic; The Applicability of Dysfunctional Methodology; References; Primary Literature; Secondary Literature; II. Romantic Science and the Arts; Catherine Clinger: Speleological Interiority - The Mindfulness of a Spelunking Anatomist; References; Primary Literature; Secondary Literature; Ulrike Kristina Köhler: Ann Radcliffe''s Gothic - A Subtle Plea for Female Education in the Arts and in the Sciences; References; Primary Literature

Secondary LiteratureFelix C.H. Sprang: The Rise of the "Life Sciences" and the Dismissal of Plant Life in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; References; Primary Literature; Secondary Literature; III. The Human and Media Change; Hania Siebenpfeiffer: (Imagining) First Contact - Literary Encounters of the Extraterrestrial Other in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Novels; 1. Transforming the Universe - the `pluralité des mondes'' and the Question of Life in Outer Space; 2. First Contact - Francis Godwin''s Voyage to the Moon

3. Satirical Counterparts - Cyrano de Bergerac meets Domingo Gonzales4. Martian prophecies - Kindermann''s Exploration of the Future of Humankind; 5. Discovering the Human in Outer Space; References; Helga Schwalm: Lives of the Physicians - Samuel Johnson, Medicine and Biography; References; Primary Literature; Secondary Literature; Birgit Mara Kaiser: Electrified Humans - Of Inhuman Affects in Heinrich von Kleist; The Striking Life of Humans, Between Electricity and Organisms; Electrified Humans and Inhuman Affects in Kleist; References; Primary Literature; Secondary Literature

Ute Berns: Artificial Life, Science and Reflexivity in James Whale''s Frankenstein1.; 2.; 3.; 4.; References