Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ : German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx / Leif Weatherby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weatherby, Leif, Author.

Series:

Forms of living.

Forms of Living

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Romanticism--Germany.

Romanticism.

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-6944-2

0-8232-6945-0

0-8232-6943-4

OCLC:

939195515