Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Prologue xvii
6. 1. Introduction: A Most Happy Encounter 1
7. Part One. The Early Romantic Movement in Literature, Philosophy, and Science
8. 2. The Early Romantic Movement 17
9. 3. Schelling: The Poetry of Nature 114
10. 4. Denouement: Farewell to Jena 193
11. Part Two. Scientific Foundations of the Romantic Conception of Life
12. 5. Early Theories of Development: Blumenbach and Kant 207
13. 6. Kielmeyer and the Organic Powers of Nature 238
14. 7. Johann Christian Reil’s Romantic Theories of Life and Mind, or Rhapsodies on a Cat-Piano 252
15. 8. Schelling’s Dynamic Evolutionism 289
16. 9. Conclusion: Mechanism, Teleology, and Evolution 307
17. Part Three. Goethe, a Genius for Poetry, Morphology, and Women
18. 10. The Erotic Authority of Nature 325
19. 11. Goethe’s Scientific Revolution 407
20. 12. Conclusion: The History of a Life in Art and Science 503
21. Part Four. Epilogue
22. 13. The Romantic Conception of Life 511
23. 14. Darwin’s Romantic Biology 514
24. Bibliography 555
25. Index 573