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Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx
Leif WeatherbySeries: Forms of Living(0)
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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.
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"In Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ, Leif Weatherby gives us a fundamentally new view on Romanticism and its contribution to German Idealism. In Hölderlin, Schelling, and Novalis, Weatherby unearths a surprisingly coherent discussion of the organ. We see the Romantic philosophers and poets intervene in the age old Western debate on techne, physics and metaphysics, with the emphasis, however,
Yale University
"Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ is a truly impressive work of scholarship. The author has a breathtaking command of the German philosophical tradition, including major figures, such as Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, as well as those who are less well-known outside the field of German studies. He has taken a single, somewhat innocuous concept-the organ-and revealed it to be at the crux o
University of California, Santa Barbara
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