Romanticism and the Sciences

Name: Romanticism and the Sciences
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ISBN: 9780521356855

ISBN-10: 0521356857

ISBN-13: 9780521356855

Edition: 1990

Authors: Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine

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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…

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List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.188



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Preface Short list of introductory reading in English


Introduction: the age of reflexion




Romanticism



Romanticism and the sciences




Schelling and the origins of his Naturphilosophie




Romantic philosophy and the organization of the disciplines: the founding of the Humboldt University of Berlin




Historical consciousness in the German Romantic Naturforschung




Theology and the sciences in the German Romantic period




Genius in Romantic natural philosophy




Sciences of the Organic



Doctors contra clysters and feudalism: the consequences of a Romantic revolution




Morphotypes and the historical-genetic method in Romantic biology




'Metaphorical mystifications': the Romantic gestation of nature in British biology




Transcendental anatomy




Romantic thought and the origins of cell theory




Alexander von Humbolt and the geography of vegetation




Sciences of the Inorganic



Goethe, colour, and the science of seeing




Johann Wilhelm Ritter: Romantic physics in Germany




The power and the glory: Humphrey Davy and Romanticism




Oersted's discovery of electromagnetism




Caves, fossils and the history of the earth




Literature and the Sciences



Goethe's use of chemical theory in his Elective Affinities




Kleist's bedlam: abnormal psychology and psychiatry in the works of Heinrich von Kleist




Coleridge and the sciences




Nature's book: the language of science in the American Renaissance




The shattered whole: Georg Buchner and Naturphilosophie



Index