Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
German Romanticism Between Leibniz and Marx

Leif Weatherby (Author)

9780823269419

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2016

472 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.706 kg

Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs—a metaphysics meant to theorize, and ultimately alter, the structure of a politically and scientifically destabilized world.