Formative Forces: Biological, Philosophical, and Linguistic Generativity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: A Science of Literature? 1
4. 1) Poetics of the Life Sciences
5. Formative Forces: Biological, Philosophical, and Linguistic Generativity 15
6. Divining Relations: Forms of Generational Recognition around 1800 34
7. Tidings of the Earth: Towards a History of Romantic Erdkunde 47
8. On Nerve Fibers: Rhetoric and Brain Anatomy in Georg Büchner 69
9. 2) The Science of Reading
10. Reading Off: On the Emergence of the Scientific Gaze 93
11. On the Margins of Derrida’s Terminology : Deconstruction, Dissemination, mise en abîme 107
12. What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking? 123
13. A Tremendous Chasm: Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, and the Measure of Poetry 141
14. 3) The Applied Science of Literature
15. Torque: Life and Motion in the 19th Century 165
16. A Doctrine of Transmissions: On the Classification of Machines Around 1800 176
17. The Novel Machine: Narration in the 19th Century 195
18. The Moment of Narration: Outlines for a Kinematic Study of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre 209
19. Afterword 227
20. List of First Publications 239
21. Bibliography 241
22. Acknowledgments 257
23. Index 259