Title Contagion : sexuality, disease, and death in German idealism and romanticism / David Farrell Krell

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) Series Studies in Continental thought Studies in Continental thought. Contents Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THAUMATURGIC IDEALISM: NOVALIS'S SCIENTIFIC-PHILOSOPHICAL NOTEBOOKS OF 1798-1800. The first kiss -- A poetics of the baneful -- Touching, contact, contagion -- The artist of immortality -- PART TWO. TORMENTED IDEALISM: SCHELLING'S FIRST PROJECTION OF A SYSTEM OF NATURE PHILOSOPHY (1799). First projection: an outline of the whole -- Sexual opposition, inhibition, contagion -- The bridge to death -- The ultimate source of life -- PART THREE. TRIUMPHANT IDEALISM: HEGEL'S EARLY PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE IN THE JENA REALPHILOSOPHIE OF 1805/06. Nature's seductive impotence -- Turned to the outside: the dialectic of genitality -- Turned to the inside: the dialectic of death -- Conclusion: A triumph of ashes -- Notes -- Annotated bibliography -- Index Summary "Although the Romantic Age is usually thought of as idealizing nature as the source of birth, life, and creativity, David Farrell Krell focuses on the preoccupation of three key German Romantic thinkers - Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel - with nature's destructive powers: contagion, disease, and death. Krell brings to light little-known texts by each writer that develop theories about the intertwined beneficent and maleficent aspects of nature. Krell's investigations reveal that the forces of sexuality and life are also seen as the carriers of disease and death. The insights of Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel offer surprisingly relevant perspectives for contemporary science and for our own thinking - in an age of contagion."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-234) and index Notes Print version record Subject Novalis, 1772-1801 -- Contributions in philosophy of nature Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854 -- Contributions in philosophy of nature Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Contributions in philosophy of nature SUBJECT Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast Novalis, 1772-1801 fast Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854 fast Novalis, (1772-1801) -- Contribution à la philosophie de la nature. ram Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, (1775-1854) -- Contribution à la philosophie de la nature. ram Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, (1770-1831) -- Contribution à la philosophie de la nature. ram Subject Philosophy of nature -- Germany -- History -- 18th century Philosophy of nature -- Germany -- History -- 19th century Natural history. Philosophy. Death. Philosophy -- history Natural History Philosophy Sexuality Death natural sciences. philosophy. deaths. SCIENCE -- Cosmology. Philosophy Natural history Death Philosophy of nature Philosophie -- Allemagne. Philosophie de la nature -- 18e siècle. Philosophie de la nature -- 19e siècle. Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 97037764 ISBN 0585130124 9780585130125

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