Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ

Leif Weatherby is Assistant Professor of German at New York University.

1. Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics Part I: Towards Organology 2. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach 3. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder 4. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ Part II: Romantic Organology Romantic Organology: Towards a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment 5. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Holderlin) 6. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology 7. Universal Organs: Novalis's Romantic Organology 8. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology Part III: After Organology 9. Technologies of Nature: Goethe's Hegelian Transformations 10. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology Acknowledgments Notes Index