Nature, ethics, and gender in German Romanticism and idealism / Alison Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Alison, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of nature--Germany--History.

Philosophy of nature.

Romanticism--Germany.

Romanticism.

Idealism, German.

History.

Germany.

Idealism, German--History.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

This book provides an account of the development of ideas about nature from the Early German Romantics into the philosophies of nature of Schelling and Hegel. Alison Stone explains how the project of philosophy of nature took shape and made sense in the post-Kantian context. She also shows how ideas of nature were central to the philosophical and literary projects of the Early German Romantics, with attention to Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis and Hoelderlin. Stone advances a distinctive, original perspective on Romantic and Idealist accounts of nature and their ethical implications regarding human-nature relations and intra-human political relations, especially but not only around gender and race. The book demonstrates how these approaches to nature have contemporary relevance to a range of current debates such as those over naturalism, the environmental crisis, and the politics of gender, race and colonialism.

Contents:

1 German Romantic and Idealist Accounts of Nature and Their Legacy p. 1

Part 1 Romantic Nature p. 19

2 The Romantic Absolute p. 21

3 Friedrich Schlegel, Romanticism and the Re-Enchantment of Nature p. 41

4 Being, Knowledge and Nature in Novalis p. 63

5 Alienation from Nature and Early German Romanticism p. 85

6 Hölderlin on Nature p. 101

Part 2 Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature p. 121

7 Philosophy of Nature p. 123

8 Hegel, Naturalism and the Philosophy of Nature p. 141

9 Hegel, Nature and Ethics p. 159

Part 3 Hegel, Gender and Race p. 171

10 Sexual Polarity in Schelling and Hegel p. 173

11 Matter and Form: Hegel, Organicism and the Difference between Women and Men p. 191

12 Gender, the Family and the Organic State in Hegel's Political Thought p. 207

13 Hegel and Colonialism p. 225

14 Hegel and Twentieth-Century French Philosophy p. 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Stone, Alison, 1972- author. Nature, ethics, and gender in German Romanticism and idealism

ISBN:

9781786609175

1786609177

9781786609182

1786609185

OCLC:

1044867157

Publisher Number:

99979926329