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Romantic empiricism : nature, art, and ecology from Herder to Humboldt /

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Nassar distinguishes an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance. She shows how four key thinkers, whom she calls the 'romantic empiricists', developed a distinc...

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Main Author: Nassar, Dalia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Herder, Johann Gottfried, > 1744-1803.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832
Herder, Johann Gottfried, > 1744-1803
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Empiricism.
Philosophy, German > 19th century.
Romanticism.
Empirisme.
Philosophie allemande > 19e siècle.
Romantisme.
romanticism (form of expression)
Aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY.
Modern.
History & Surveys.
Empiricism
Philosophy, German
Romanticism
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage : Kant and the Critique of the power of judgment
  • The hermeneutics of nature : Herder on animal and human worlds
  • The science of describing : Herder, Goethe and the Hauptform
  • Aesthetic education and the transformation of the scientist
  • Intuitive judgment and Goethe's Ethics of knowledge
  • Organism and environment : the aesthetic foundations of Humboldt's ecological insight
  • Embodied cognition : Humboldt and the art of science.