Forms of Living: Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ : German Romanticism Between Leibniz and Marx (Hardcover)

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. Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs--a metaphysics meant to theorize, and ultimately alter, the structure of a politically and scientifically destabilized world.