1. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics 1
4. Part I. Toward Organology
5. Introduction 47
6. 1. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach 51
7. 2. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder 72
8. 3. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ 108
9. Part II. Romantic Organology: Toward a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment
10. Introduction 123
11. 4. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Hölderlin) 131
12. 5. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology 171
13. 6. Universal Organs: Novalis’s Romantic Organology 206
14. 7. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology 251
15. Part III. After Organology
16. 8. Technologies of Nature: Goethe’s Hegelian Transformations 279
17. 9. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology 316
18. Acknowledgments 353
19. Notes 355
20. Bibliography 425
21. Index 449
22. Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, series editors 463