Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ : German Romanticism Between Leibniz and Marx.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics -- Part I. Toward Organology -- 1. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach -- 2. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder -- 3. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ -- Part II. Romantic Organology: Toward a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment -- 4. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Hölderlin) -- 5. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology -- 6. Universal Organs: Novalis's Romantic Organology -- 7. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology -- Part III. After Organology -- 8. Technologies of Nature: Goethe's Hegelian Transformations -- 9. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world, and offered a metaphysics meant to alter the structure of that world.

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