Buch, Englisch, 367 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 597 g
Buch, Englisch, 367 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 597 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-35685-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
While the Romantic period has attracted a great deal of interest in recent times, there has neen no general work since 1941 on the relationship between Romanticism and the sciences. This new book presents a series of essays, each specially written by an expert in the area, which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences, and on the role of the sciences in Romantic literature. The contributions are designed to give a systematic coverage of the whole field. They are written at a popular level; they are well-illustrated; and are accompanied by suggestions for further reading suitable for undergraduates and others. Divided helpfully into four sections under the titles 'Romanticism', 'Sciences of the Organic', 'Sciences of the Inorganic', and 'Literature and the Sciences', the book discusses various themes, movements and theories, as well as individual scientists and writers (including Schelling, von Humboldt, Goethe, Ritter, Davy, Oersted, Kleist, Coleridge, and Buchner). There is an editorial introduction prefiguring some of the concerns of the books. This original collection, designed to provide a balance of literary and scientific interests for students in both humanistic and scientific disciplines and occupies an important place in a previously underexplored field.
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List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface Short list of introductory reading in English Introduction: the age of reflexion ANDREW CUNNINGHAM and NICHOLAS JARDINE I: ROMANTICISM 1. Romanticism and the sciences DAVID KNIGHT 2. Schelling and the origins of his Naturphilosophie S. R. MORGAN 3. Romantic philosophy and the organization of the disciplines: the founding of the Humboldt University of Berlin ELINOR S. SHAFFER 4. Historical consciousness in the German Romantic Naturforschung DIETRICH VON ENGELHARDT 5. Theology and the sciences in the German Romantic period FREDERICK GREGORY 6. Genius in Romantic natural philosophy SIMON SCHAFFER II: SCIENCES OF THE ORGANIC 7. Doctors contra clysters and feudalism: the consequences of a Romantic revolution NELLY TSOUYOPOULOS 8. Morphotypes and the historical-genetic method in Romantic biology TIMOTHY LENOIR 9. 'Metaphorical mystifications': the Romantic gestation of nature in British biology EVELLEEN RICHARDS 10. Transcendental anatomy PHILIP F. REHBOCK 11. Romantic thought and the origins of cell theory L. S. JACYNA 12. Alexander von Humbolt and the geography of vegetation MALCOLM NICOLSON III: SCIENCES OF THE INORGANIC 13. Goethe, colour, and the science of seeing DENNIS L. SEPPER 14. Johann Wilhelm Ritter: Romantic physics in Germany WALTER D. WETZELS 15. The power and the glory: Humphrey Davy and Romanticism CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE 16. Oersted's discovery of electromagnetism H. A. M. SNELDERS 17. Caves, fossils and the history of the earth NICHOLAS A. RUPKE IV: LITERATURE AND THE SCIENCES 18. Goethe's use of chemical theory in his Elective Affinities JEREMY ADLER 19. Kleist's bedlam: abnormal psychology and psychiatry in the works of Heinrich von Kleist NIGEL REEVES 20. Coleridge and the sciences TREVOR H. LEVERE 21. Nature's book: the language of science in the American Renaissance DAVID VAN LEER 22. The shattered whole: Georg Buchner and Naturphilosophie JOHN REDDICK Index
