Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ German Romanticism Between Leibniz and Marx

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world, and offered a metaphysics meant to alter the structure of that world.

About the author

Leif Weatherby is Assistant Professor of German at New York University.

Summary

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world, and offered a metaphysics meant to alter the structure of that world.

Product details

• Authors: Leif Weatherby, Assistant Professor of German Leif (New Weatherby, Assistant Professor of German Leif (New York University) Weatherby
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.03.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780823269419
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6941-9
• Pages: 472
• Series: Forms of Living (FUP); Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century