Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism

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Indiana University Press, 22.03.1998 - 256 Seiten

"Krell writes here with a brilliance of style that few other philosophers can match." -- John Sallis

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.

 

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PART
15
THAUMATURGIC
21
Novaliss ScientificPhilosophical
29
Touching Contact Contagion
54
PART
71
Sexual Opposition Inhibition
90
The Bridge to Death
100
1799
109
PART THREE
115
NOTES
208
169
235
Urheberrecht

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Seite 3 - Nature," wrote Goethe, in the midst of his researches, " we are surrounded and clasped by her, unable to step out of her, and unable to go farther into her. Unbidden and unwarned, she takes us up into her circling dance, and whirls herself forth with us until we are exhausted and sink from her arms. . . . We live in the midst of her, and are strangers to her ; she converses with us unceasingly, and never betrays her secret. We act upon her continually, and yet have no power over her. She lives altogether...

Autoren-Profil (1998)

David Farrell Krell is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. Among his books are Infectious Nietzsche, Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy, and Son of Spirit: A Novel.

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