William S. Davis (Author)
This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Near the end of the eighteenth century, poets and thinkers reinvented Greece as a site of aesthetic and ontological wholeness, a move that corresponded with a refiguring of nature as a dynamically interconnected web in which each part is linked to the living whole. This vision of a vibrant materiality that allows us to become “one with all that lives,” along with a Romantic version of Hellenism that wished to reassemble the broken fragments of an imaginary Greece as both site and symbol of this all-unity, functioned as a two-pronged response to subjective anxiety that arose in the wake of Kant and Fichte. The result is a form of resistance to an idealism that appeared to leave little room for a world of beauty, love, and nature beyond the self.
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Oerlemans, Onno;
(2002)
Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature
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Article
Coleman, Frank M.;
(2010)
Classical Liberalism and American Landscape Representation: The Imperial Self in Nature
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Article
Yannis Hadzigeorgiou;
Roland Schulz;
(2014)
Romanticism and Romantic Science: Their Contribution to Science Education
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Chapter
Wolf, Herta;
(2013)
Nature as Drawing Mistress
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Book
Smith, Justin E. H.;
Nachtomy, Ohad;
(2011)
Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz
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Article
Thorvaldsen, Steinar;
Øhrstrøm, Peter;
(2013)
Darwin's Perplexing Paradox: Intelligent Design in Nature
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Article
Elena Casetta;
(2020)
Making Sense of Nature Conservation After the End of Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB940720523/)
Book
Svetozar Y. Minkov;
Bernhardt L. Trout;
(2018)
Mastery of Nature: Promises and Prospects
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Article
Ruper, Stefani;
(2014)
Metaphysics Matters: Metaphysics and Soteriology in Jerome Stone's and Donald Crosby's Varieties of Religious Naturalism
(/isis/citation/CBB001201357/)
Article
Hudson, Wayne;
(2014)
Philosophy, Theology, and the Humanities
(/isis/citation/CBB001201206/)
Book
Paolo Vidali;
(2022)
Storia dell'idea di natura: Dal pensiero greco alla coscienza dell'Antropocene
(/isis/citation/CBB206104480/)
Article
Dolores Martín Moruno;
(2014)
Feeling Nature: Emotions and Ecology. The Legacy of Romanticism
(/isis/citation/CBB230032156/)
Article
Sandra Rebok;
(2014)
Transatlantic Views of Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB308406816/)
Book
Lawlor, Mary;
(2000)
Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West
(/isis/citation/CBB000100351/)
Article
Schatz-Jakobsen, Claus;
(2008)
Wordsworth as Scatterbrain: Deconstructing the “Nature” of William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes
(/isis/citation/CBB001031198/)
Article
Walls, Laura Dassow;
(2010)
Of Atoms, Oaks, and Cannibals; or, More Things That Talk
(/isis/citation/CBB001021220/)
Thesis
Carlson, Charles Royal;
(2012)
Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility
(/isis/citation/CBB001567408/)
Book
Kelley, Theresa M.;
(2012)
Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB001213710/)
Book
Charles Morris Lansley;
(2018)
Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature
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Chapter
Maierhofer, Waltraud;
(2012)
Goethe and Forestry
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