Index of Subjects

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. 1 Introduction: The Resurgence of Classical German Natural Philosophy 1
4. Part I Visions of Nature
5. 2 Three Visions of Nature for German Idealism: Kant, Herder, Goethe 21
6. 3 Nature as a “You”: Novalis’s Philosophical Extension of Fichte 45
7. 4 Schelling on Comprehending Nature as an Absolute Activity: From Intellectual Intuition to Ecstasy of Reason 61
8. 5 Hegel and the Rationality of Nature 77
9. 6 Ludwig Feuerbach’s Ecological Humanism 91
10. Part II Inorganic Nature
11. 7 Kant’s Concept of Force and its Application in Physics and Psychology 111
12. 8 From Kant to Schelling: Metaphysics of Nature and the Rise of Modern Science 135
13. 9 Goethe’s Rational Empiricism 157
14. 10 Hegel’s Concept of Inorganic Nature as Umwelt 183
15. Part III Organic Nature
16. 11 Nature versus Life: Dialectics and Physiology in Schelling 209
17. 12 Anatomopathology of Reason: Bichat’s Legacy in Hegel’s Philosophy 229
18. 13 The Emergence of Sentience: Hegel’s Conception of Animals 247
19. 14 Great Chains of Being in Schelling’s Würzburg System 263
20. 15 In What Sense is Nature a Scale of Degrees? Schelling and Hegel on “Degrees” in Nature 283
21. Index of Names 295
22. Index of Subjects 297