TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richards,Robert J.
TI  - The romantic conception of life: science and philosophy in the age of Goethe 
T2  - Science and its conceptual foundations
SN  - 9780226712185 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PT361 .R53 2002eb
U1  - 830.9/145 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Germany
KW  - German literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - Philosophy, German
KW  - Science
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Romantisme
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Littérature allemande
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Littérature et sciences
KW  - Philosophie allemande
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Natuurwetenschappen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Filosofie
KW  - Romantiek
KW  - Romantik
KW  - swd
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Naturwissenschaften
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-571) and index; Introduction : A most happy encounter -- pt. 1. The early Romantic movement in literature, philosophy, and science. The early Romantic movement -- Schelling : the poetry of nature -- Denouement : farewell to Jena -- pt. 2. Scientific foundations of the Romantic conception of life. Early theories of development : Blumenbach and Kant -- Kielmeyer and the organic powers of nature -- Johann Christian Reil's Romantic theories of life and mind, or rhapsodies on a cat-piano -- Schelling's dynamic evolutionism -- Conclusion : Mechanism, teleology, and evolution -- pt. 3. Goethe, a genius for poetry, morphology, and women. The erotic authority of nature -- Goethe's scientific revolution -- Conclusion : The history of a life in art and science -- pt. 4. Epilogue. The Romantic conception of life -- Darwin's Romantic biology
N2  - & Quot;All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integr
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