The Romantic Conception of Life
Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
Cloth $39.00
ISBN: 9780226712109
Published December 2002
Paper $20.00
ISBN: 9780226712116
Published September 2004
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Introduction: A Most Happy Encounter
PART ONE - THE EARLY ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE
2. The Early Romantic Movement
3. Schelling: The Poetry of Nature
4. Denouement: Farwell to Jena
PART TWO - SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE ROMANTIC CONCEPTION OF LIFE
5. Early Theories of Development: Blumenback and Kant
6. Kielmeyer and the Organic Powers of Nature
7. Johann Christian Reli's Romantic Theories of Life and Mind, or Rhapsodies on a Cat-Piano
PART THREE - GOETHE, A GENIUS FOR POETRY, MORPHOLOGY, AND WOMEN
10 - The Erotic Authority of Nature
11 - Goethe's Scientific Revolution
12 - Conclusion: The History of a Life in Art and Science
PART FOUR - EPILOGUE
13. The Romantic Conception of Life
14. Darwin's Romantic Biology
Bibliography
Index
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