Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, German, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects
| Author: | Leif Weatherby | ISBN: | 9780823269426 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press | Publication: | March 1, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Modern Language Initiative | Language: | English |
| Author: | Leif Weatherby |
| ISBN: | 9780823269426 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
| Publication: | March 1, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Modern Language Initiative |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
