Romantic empiricism : nature, art, and ecology from Herder to Humboldt / Dalia Nassar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nassar, Dalia, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Empiricism.

Philosophy, German--19th century.

Philosophy, German.

Romanticism.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803.

Herder, Johann Gottfried.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.

Humboldt, Alexander von.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Nassar distinguishes an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance. She shows how four key thinkers, whom she calls the 'romantic empiricists', developed a distinctive approach to the study of nature, which culminated in an ecological understanding of nature and the human place within it. Nassar contends that the romantic empiricist insights and approaches remain crucial for us today, as we seek to address the environmental crisis.

Contents:

Setting the stage : Kant and the Critique of the power of judgment

The hermeneutics of nature : Herder on animal and human worlds

The science of describing : Herder, Goethe and the Hauptform

Aesthetic education and the transformation of the scientist

Intuitive judgment and Goethe's Ethics of knowledge

Organism and environment : the aesthetic foundations of Humboldt's ecological insight

Embodied cognition : Humboldt and the art of science.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 26, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Nassar, Dalia Romantic Empiricism

ISBN:

0-19-009546-6

0-19-009544-X

0-19-009545-8