Goethe And The Sciences A Reappraisal

Author : F.R. Amrine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940093761X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal written by F.R. Amrine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: of him in like measure within myself, that is my highest wish. This noble individual was not conscious of the fact that at that very moment the divine within him and the divine of the universe were most intimately united. So, for Goethe, the resonance with a natural rationality seems part of the genius of modern science. Einstein's 'cosmic religion', which reflects Spinoza, also echoes Goethe's remark (Ibid. , Item 575 from 1829): Man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible. Else he would give up investigating. But how far will Goethe share the devotion of these cosmic rationalists to the beautiful harmonies of mathematics, so distant from any pure and 'direct observation'? Kepler, Spinoza, Einstein need not, and would not, rest with discovery of a pattern within, behind, as a source of, the phenomenal world, and they would not let even the most profound of descriptive generalities satisfy scientific curiosity. For his part, Goethe sought fundamental archetypes, as in his intuition of a Urpjlanze, basic to all plants, infinitely plastic. When such would be found, Goethe would be content, for (as he said to Eckermann, Feb. 18, 1829): . . . to seek something behind (the Urphaenomenon) is futile. Here is the limit. But as a rule men are not satisfied to behold an Urphaenomenon. They think there must be something beyond. They are like children who, having looked into a mirror, turn it around to see what is on the other side.

Author : Frederick Amrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Goethe and the Sciences written by Frederick Amrine and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karl J. Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521402115
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goethe's History of Science written by Karl J. Fink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fink explores how Goethe's scientific activities contributed to the growing literature in the history and philosophy of science.

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791436813
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goethe's Way of Science written by David Seamon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Goethe's neglected but sizable body of scientific work, considers the philosophical foundations of his approach, and applies his method to the real world of nature.

Author : Thomas P. Saine
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131218
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goethe Yearbook 8 written by Thomas P. Saine and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latest volume in series devoted to Goethe criticism (and studies of his contemporaries), with an extensive book review section.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783518029695
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Scientific Studies written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of over 40 selections from Goethe's scientific writings.

Author : Frederick Amrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780932776655
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perennial Alternative written by Frederick Amrine and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perennial Alternative is the ripe fruit of a long, lively, in-depth exploration of Goethe's scientific work. Anyone who has begun to realize the significance of Goethe's scientific approach for us today will find this collection of brilliant essays richly rewarding. Frederick Amrine brings us up to date on the current reception of Goethe's scientific work and how it relates to the new paradigm of emergence and to such contemporary thinkers as Thomas Nagel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, and Thomas Kuhn. In a fascinating essay on the importance of Goethe's Italian Journey for the development of his organic thinking, the author digs deep into his intimate knowledge of Goethe's biography, shedding new light on Goethe's relationship with Spinoza's philosophy and with Newton's optics. In "The Metamorphosis of the Scientist," he articulates a central aspect of Goethean science--namely, that, like all of organic nature, scientists evolve. Their understanding of the world evolves with them in the sense that, as Goethe put it, "Every new object, well-observed and contemplated, opens up a new organ of perception in us." Thisnatu collection also includes insightful essays on the work of contemporary Goethean scientists Jochen Bockemühl, Michael Wilson, and Wolfgang Schad as well as an excellent introduction to Schad's life work, Threefoldness in Humans and Mammals. C O N T E N T S 1. Introduction 2. Goethe's Italian Discoveries as a Natural Scientist (The Scientist in the Underworld) 3. Goethean Intuitions 4. The Metamorphosis of the Scientist 5. Methodological Issues Regarding the Experimentum crucis 6. Goethe and Steiner as Pioneers of Emergence 7. The Music of the Organism 8. Readings in the Text of Nature: Three Contemporary Goetheans 9. Goethean Method in the Work of Jochen Bockemühl 10. Goethe's Epistemology of the South 11. Bibliographic Essay

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082488504X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goethe's Botanical Writings written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the golden youth and the Olympian old age of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet; less has been written, however, about Goethe the scientist, who, pursuing independent research in many fields, opposed the professional men of his day with brilliant theories of his own. The educated world, familiar with Faust, Werther, and Wilhelm Meister, is not so generally aware of the scientific achievements of the man who had a genus of plants (Goethea) and a mineral (goethite) named for him who coined and first used the word morphology; who contributed to the understanding of the physiology of color; who rediscovered and described the intermaxillary bone in man, propounded the vertebral theory of the skull, formulated a concept in botanical morphology that persists to this day; who discovered the volcanic origin of a mountain; who established the first system of weather stations; who made the first systematic classification of minerals and was among the first to use the comparative method in biology; and who came unwittingly close to achieving the greatest concept in biology—some say the greatest concept in the thinking of man—the theory of organic evolution and the descent of man. Even in those few cases where subsequent research has proved Goethe’s theories to be wrong, his supporting accumulation of facts has proved extremely valuable to science. Goethe was born at the beginning of a great scientific era. But he was a creative thinker; his was not the analytic mind that emphasized fine differences but the synthetic mind that sensed the unity behind the differences. He was also an ardent lover of nature, possessed of unlimited curiosity. Consequently, as a contemporary observed, "Whatever Goeth looked upon in nature immediately acquired the character of a living experience for him." Most of the material translated in this volume is taken from notes and essays which Goethe published from 1817 to 1824 in journal form. Occupying a central position is the most famous and lasting of his scientific writings, the essay on the metamorphosis of plants—an essay which is today considered "one of the minor classics of botany." One of the most important episodes in Goethe's life was his flight to Italy, where he was delighted by the climate and the luxuriance of the plant life. A fan palm in particular attracted his attention because its leaves seemed to exhibit a complete series of transitions from the simple lance-shaped first leaves to the most complex fan type. "At my request," Goethe wrote in his diary, "the gardener cut off an entire sequence of modifications for me, and I burdened myself with several pasteboard containers in which to carry these treasures around." From this beginning Goethe started to evolve his theory of plant metamorphosis, and he returned to Weimar convinced that he had found the secret. The literary student will find much to interest him in this translation—the poet's own account of his grief and suffering at the hands of misunderstanding friends, and his victory over a threatening neurosis. Such essays as "The History of My Botanical Studies" and "The Fate of My Manuscript" throw much light on the crucial middle period of Goethe's life. During Goethe's lifetime and after, there was a tendency to ignore his scientific accomplishments in the face of his literary works. Many felt that they were almost a crime against his poetry. A few, however, contended that in science lay the center and focal point of Goethe's mental life. Goethe, himself, toward the end of his life wrote, "For more than a half century I have been known as a poet, in my own country and undoubtedly also abroad; or at any rate I have been permitted to pass for one. But the fact that I have busily occupied myself with Nature in all her general physical and organic phenomena, constantly and passionately pursuing seriously formulated studies—this is not so generally known; still less has it been accorded any attention." "Minds like Goethe's," Thomas Carlyle said, "are the common property of all nations; and, for many reasons, all should have correct impressions of them." This translation will enable those not familiar with the German language to gain a direct impression of Goethe's mind as expressed in his botanical writings.

Author : Philippe Huneman
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462655
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Purpose written by Philippe Huneman and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology. Understanding Purpose is an exploration of the central concept of natural purpose [Naturzweck] in Kant's philosophy of biology. Kant's work in this area is marked by a strong teleological concern: living organisms, in his view, are qualitatively different from mechanistic devices, and as a result they cannot be understood by means of the same principles. At the same time, Kant's own use of the concept of purpose does not presuppose any theological commitments, and is merely "regulative"; that is, it is employed as a heuristic device. The contributors to this volume also investigate the following key historical questions relating to Kant's philosophy of biology: How does it relate to European work in the life sciences that was done before Kant arrived on the scene? How did Kant's unique approach to the philosophy of biology in turn influence later work in this area? The issues explored in this volume are as pertinent to the history of philosophy as they are to the history of science -- it is precisely the blurred boundaries between these two disciplines that allows for new perspectives on Kantianism and early nineteenth-century German biology to emerge. Contributors: Jean-Claude Dupont, Mark Fisher, Philippe Huneman, Robert J. Richards, Phillip R. Sloan, Stéphane Schmitt, and John Zammito. Philippe Huneman is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unit of the Université Paris.

Author : Scot Danforth
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433101700
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book The Incomplete Child written by Scot Danforth and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning disability, was the development of a science that blended neurology, psychology, and education. This book tracks the historical creation of the science of learning disabilities, beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces the growth of the two primary research traditions, the psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movement education of Newell Kephart, exploring how specific scientific orientations, theories, and practices led to the birth of the learning disability in the United States.