Romanticism In Science

Author : S. Poggi,M. Bossi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401729215

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Romanticism in Science by S. Poggi,M. Bossi Pdf

Romanticism in all its expression communicated a vision of the essential interconnectedness and harmony of the universe. The romantic concept of knowledge was decidedly unitary, but, in the period between 1790 and 1840, the special emphasis it placed on observation and research led to an unprecedented accumulation of data, accompanied by a rapid growth in scientific specialization. An example of the tensions created by this development is to be found in the scientists' congresses which attempted a first response to the fragmentation of scientific research. The problem concerning the unitary concept of knowledge in that period, and the new views of the world which were generated are the subject of this book. The articles it contains are all based on original research by an international group of highly specialized scholars. Their research probes a wide range of issues, from the heirs of Naturphilosophie, to the `life sciences', and to the debate on `Baconian Sciences', as well as examining many aspects of mathematics, physics and chemistry. History of philosophy and history of science scholars will find this book an essential reference work, as well as all those interested in 19th century history in general. Undergraduate and graduate students will also find here angles and topics that have hitherto been largely neglected.

Author : Dr. Andrew Cunningham,Nicholas Jardine
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521356857

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Romanticism and the Sciences by Dr. Andrew Cunningham,Nicholas Jardine Pdf

This book presents a series of essays which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences.

Author : Robert J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226712185

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The Romantic Conception of Life by Robert J. Richards Pdf

"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integrating Romantic literature, science, and philosophy with an intimate knowledge of the individuals involved—from Goethe and the brothers Schlegel to Humboldt and Friedrich and Caroline Schelling—Richards demonstrates how their tempestuous lives shaped their ideas as profoundly as their intellectual and cultural heritage. He focuses especially on how Romantic concepts of the self, as well as aesthetic and moral considerations—all tempered by personal relationships—altered scientific representations of nature. Although historians have long considered Romanticism at best a minor tributary to scientific thought, Richards moves it to the center of the main currents of nineteenth-century biology, culminating in the conception of nature that underlies Darwin's evolutionary theory. Uniting the personal and poetic aspects of philosophy and science in a way that the German Romantics themselves would have honored, The Romantic Conception of Life alters how we look at Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology.

Author : Richard C. Sha
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421439839

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Imagination and Science in Romanticism by Richard C. Sha Pdf

Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason—but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.

Author : Noah Heringman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791486931

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Romantic Science by Noah Heringman Pdf

Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science—the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature—originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period's literary culture. As Thomas Pennant put it in 1772, "Natural History is, at present, the favourite science over all Europe, and the progress which has been made in it will distinguish and characterise the eighteenth century in the annals of literature." As they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, the contributors to this volume historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science. Contributors include Alan Bewell, Rachel Crawford, Noah Heringman, Theresa M. Kelley, Amy Mae King, Lydia H. Liu, Anne K. Mellor, Stuart Peterfreund, and Catherine E. Ross.

Author : Tim Fulford,Debbie Lee,Peter J. Kitson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521829194

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Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era by Tim Fulford,Debbie Lee,Peter J. Kitson Pdf

Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.

Author : John Tresch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226812229

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The Romantic Machine by John Tresch Pdf

In the years immediately following Napoleon’s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and how they worked together to unite a fractured society. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, electromagnetic and geophysical instruments, early photography, and mass-scale printing, Tresch looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. He shows that those who attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism in various ways, including Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte, charted a road not taken that resonates today. Essential reading for historians of science, intellectual and cultural historians of Europe, and literary and art historians, The Romantic Machine is poised to profoundly alter our understanding of the scientific and cultural landscape of the early nineteenth century.

Author : Amanda Jo Goldstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226458588

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Sweet Science by Amanda Jo Goldstein Pdf

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry. Goldstein puts apparently literary projects, such as William Blake’s poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe’s journals On Morphology, and Percy Shelley’s “poetry of life,” back into conversation with the openly poetic life sciences of Erasmus Darwin, J. G. Herder, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Such poetic sciences, Goldstein argues, share in reviving Lucretius’s De rerum natura to advance a view of biological life as neither self-organized nor autonomous, but rather dependent on the collaborative and symbolic processes that give it viable and recognizable form. They summon De rerum natura for a logic of life resistant to the vitalist stress on self-authorizing power and to make a monumental case for poetry’s role in the perception and communication of empirical realities. The first dedicated study of this mortal and materialist dimension of Romantic biopoetics, Sweet Science opens a through-line between Enlightenment materialisms of nature and Marx’s coming historical materialism.

Author : S. Poggi,M. Bossi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9401729220

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Romanticism in Science by S. Poggi,M. Bossi Pdf

Romanticism in all its expression communicated a vision of the essential interconnectedness and harmony of the universe. The romantic concept of knowledge was decidedly unitary, but, in the period between 1790 and 1840, the special emphasis it placed on observation and research led to an unprecedented accumulation of data, accompanied by a rapid growth in scientific specialization. An example of the tensions created by this development is to be found in the scientists' congresses which attempted a first response to the fragmentation of scientific research. The problem concerning the unitary concept of knowledge in that period, and the new views of the world which were generated are the subject of this book. The articles it contains are all based on original research by an international group of highly specialized scholars. Their research probes a wide range of issues, from the heirs of Naturphilosophie, to the `life sciences', and to the debate on `Baconian Sciences', as well as examining many aspects of mathematics, physics and chemistry. History of philosophy and history of science scholars will find this book an essential reference work, as well as all those interested in 19th century history in general. Undergraduate and graduate students will also find here angles and topics that have hitherto been largely neglected.

Author : Stephanie O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316519028

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Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism by Stephanie O'Rourke Pdf

Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.

Author : David Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317242192

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Science in the Romantic Era by David Knight Pdf

First published in 1998. The Romantic Era was a time when society, religion and other beliefs, and science were all in flux. The idea that the universe was a great clock, and that men were little clocks, all built by a divine watchmaker, was giving way to a more dynamic and pantheistic way of thinking. A new language was invented for chemistry, replacing metaphor with algebra; and scientific illustration came to play the role of a visual language, deeply involved with theory. A scientific community came gradually into being as the 19th century wore on. The papers which compose this book have appeared in a wide range of books and journals; together with the new introduction they illuminate science and its context in the Romantic Era and follow its effects in the 19th century.

Author : Alan Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139428514

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British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind by Alan Richardson Pdf

In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Richardson breaks new ground in two fields, revealing a significant and undervalued facet of British Romanticism while demonstrating the 'Romantic' character of early neuroscience. Crucial notions like the active mind, organicism, the unconscious, the fragmented subject, instinct and intuition, arising simultaneously within the literature and psychology of the era, take on unsuspected valences that transform conventional accounts of Romantic cultural history. Neglected issues like the corporeality of mind, the role of non-linguistic communication, and the peculiarly Romantic understanding of cultural universals are reopened in discussions that bring new light to bear on long-standing critical puzzles, from Coleridge's suppression of 'Kubla Khan', to Wordsworth's perplexing theory of poetic language, to Austen's interest in head injury.

Author : Robert M. Brain,Robert S. Cohen,Ole Knudsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402029790

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Hans Christian Ørsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science by Robert M. Brain,Robert S. Cohen,Ole Knudsen Pdf

This fascinating text is an exploration of the relationship between science and philosophy in the early nineteenth century. This subject remains one of the most misunderstood topics in modern European intellectual history. By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian Ørsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism.

Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415219531

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Romanticism and Science, 1773-1833 by Tim Fulford Pdf

Author : Robert Mitchell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421410883

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Experimental Life by Robert Mitchell Pdf

Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. Winner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study has investigated what it meant for artists to experiment and how those experiments related to their interest in the concept of life. Experimental Life draws on approaches and ideas from contemporary science studies, proposing the concept of experimental vitalism to show both how Romantic authors appropriated the concept of experimentation from the sciences and the impact of their appropriation on post-Romantic concepts of literature and art. Robert Mitchell navigates complex conceptual arenas such as network theory, gift exchange, paranoia, and biomedia and introduces new concepts, such as cryptogamia, chylopoietic discourse, trance-plantation, and the poetics of suspension. As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.