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.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Leif Weatherby, Assistant Professor of German Leif (New York University) Weatherby, Assistant Professor of German Leif (New Weatherby
• Editore: Fordham University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.03.2016
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica tedesca; letteratura in lingua tedesca; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi
• EAN: 9780823269419
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6941-9
• Numero di pagine: 472
• Serie: Forms of Living (FUP); Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Categorie: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century