The form of becoming : embryology and the epistemology of rhythm, 1760-1830 /
"The Form of Becoming offers an innovative understanding of the emergence around 1800 of the science of embryology and a new notion of development, one based on the epistemology of rhythm. It argues that between 1760 and 1830, the concept of rhythm became crucial to many fields of knowledge, in...
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New York :
Zone Books,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The form of becoming
- Part I: A new epistemology of rhythm. 1. Literary form ; 2. Epigenetic music ; 3. Rhythmical productivity in Schelling's philosophy of nature and art
- Part II: Biological rhythm. 4. Forms out of formlessness ; 5. Sense and verse : Goethe's Metamorphosis of plants ; 6. The rhythm of the living world : physiology circa 1800
- Part III: Serial iconography. 7. The iconography of motion ; 8. Epigenetic iconography ; 9. Folding into being : Christian Heinrich Pander ; 10. Karl Ernst von Baer and the choreography of development
- Conclusion.