Transplanting the metaphysical organ : German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx / Leif Weatherby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weatherby, Leif, author.

Series:

Forms of living

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German.

Romanticism--Germany.

Romanticism.

Germany.

Metaphysics.

Local Subjects:

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, German.

Romanticism.

Germany.

Physical Description:

v, 462 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Toward Organology 47

1 Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach 51

2 The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder 72

3 The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ 108

Part II Romantic Organology: Toward a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment 123

4 The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Hölderlin) 131

5 Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology 171

6 Universal Organs: Novalis's Romantic Organology 206

7 Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology 251

Part III After Organology 277

8 Technologies of Nature: Goethe's Hegelian Transformations 279

9 Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology 316.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823269402

082326940X

9780823269419

0823269418

OCLC:

915493657