Romantic Empiricism

Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Dalia Nassar, The University of Sydney) Nassar, Dalia (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy

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In Romantic Empiricism, Dalia Nassar distinguishes and explores an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance. Moving from the late Kant's notion of reflecting judgment, to Herder's articulation of the idea of "animal worlds," Goethe's explication of the obligations of the scientist, and Alexander von Humboldt's aesthetic science, Nassar demonstrates how these thinkers developed a sophisticated empirical approach to the natural world, which focuses on the phenomenon while also recognizing the creative role of the knowing subject and the cognitive value of art and aesthetic experience. She explores how these four thinkers worked together-sometimes as rivals, but more often than not as teachers and collaborators-and illustrates how their search for a new methodology culminated in a new, ecological understanding of the world and the human place within it. Revisiting their thought, especially their distinctive approach to the study of nature, Nassar demonstrates, has the potential to redirect contemporary environmental debates and respond to urgent ecological questions in new and productive ways.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-16
Mått163 x 238 x 25 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190095437

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Dalia Nassar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Researcher at the Sydney Environment Institute. Her work sits at the crossroads of the history of German philosophy, environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and ethics. She is the author of The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in German Romantic Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and editor of a number of volumes, including, most recently, Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (with Kristin Gjesdal, Oxford University Press, 2021).

IntroductionChapter 1: Setting the Stage: Kant and the Critique of the Power of JudgmentChapter 2: The Hermeneutics of Nature: Herder on Animal and Human WorldsChapter 3: The Science of Describing: Herder, Goethe and the HauptformChapter 4: Aesthetic Education and the Transformation of the ScientistChapter 5: Intuitive Judgment and Goethe's Ethics of KnowledgeChapter 6: Organism and Environment: The Aesthetic Foundations of Humboldt's Ecological InsightChapter 7: Embodied Cognition: Humboldt and the Art of ScienceConclusion: The Relevance of Romantic Empiricism

A sea change is taking place in the understanding of German Romantic science, and Nassar's study adds significantly to that impulse. She traces the line that originates in Herder's controversial relation with Kant and flows into Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt, giving it a provocative name: Romantic empiricism. Moreover, she highlights the contemporary importance of this line for new ideas in environmentalism and the practice of natural science. All of this I find both cogent and propitious.