Haekel / Blackmore Discovering the Human

Life Science and the Arts in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0137-9
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

'Discovering the Human' investigates the emergence of the modern human sciences and their impact on literature, art and other media in the 18th and the 19th centuries. Up until the 1830s, science and culture were part of a joint endeavour to discover and explore the secret of life. The question 'What is life?' unites science and the arts during the Ages of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and at the end of the Romantic period, a shift of focus from the human as an organic whole to the specialized disciplines signals the dawning of modernity. The emphasis of the edited collection is threefold: the first part sheds light on the human in art and science in the Age of Enlightenment, the second part is concerned with the transitions taking place at the turn of the 19th century. The chapters forming the third part investigate the impact of different media on the concept of the human in science, literature and film.

Dr. Ralf Haekel is Juniorprofessor of English Literature and Culture at Göttingen University. His research interests include Early Modern drama, science in British Romanticism and literature and media studies. His new book 'The Soul in British Romanticism' will be published later this year.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haekel, Ralf

Blackmore, Sabine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heyl, Christoph

Hansen, Mascha

Blazan, Sladja

Clinger, Catherine

Köhler, Ulrike Kristina

Sprang, Felix C.H.

Siebenpfeiffer, Hania

Schwalm, Helga

Kaiser, Birgit M.

Berns, Ute

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Romantik (Kunstgeschichte)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;5
4;Body;7
5;Ralf Haekel & Sabine Blackmore: Discovering the Human – An Introduction;7
5.1;1. Historical Transitions;7
5.2;2. Life;10
5.3;3. Language;14
5.4;4. Classification;15
5.5;5. Science and Art;18
5.6;6. Discovering the Human;19
5.7;References;23
6;I. Eighteenth-Century Science and the Arts;27
7;Christoph Heyl: William Hogarth, Science and Human Nature;29
7.1;References;52
8;Mascha Hansen: Scientifick Wives – Eighteenth-Century Women Between Self, Society and Science;53
8.1;References;67
8.1.1;Primary Literature;67
8.1.2;Secondary Literature;67
9;Sladja Blazan: Immanuel Kant's “One Great Republic” – From Spirit Theory to Moral Philosophy;69
9.1;The Immaterial World;70
9.2;Secret Power;74
9.3;One Great Republic;76
9.4;The Applicability of Dysfunctional Methodology;79
9.5;References;80
9.5.1;Primary Literature;80
9.5.2;Secondary Literature;81
10;II. Romantic Science and the Arts;83
11;Catherine Clinger: Speleological Interiority – The Mindfulness of a Spelunking Anatomist;85
11.1;References;103
11.1.1;Primary Literature;103
11.1.2;Secondary Literature;104
12;Ulrike Kristina Köhler: Ann Radcliffe's Gothic – A Subtle Plea for Female Education in the Arts and in the Sciences;105
12.1;References;113
12.1.1;Primary Literature;113
12.1.2;Secondary Literature;113
13;Felix C.H. Sprang: The Rise of the “Life Sciences” and the Dismissal of Plant Life in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries;115
13.1;References;132
13.1.1;Primary Literature;132
13.1.2;Secondary Literature;133
14;III. The Human and Media Change;137
15;Hania Siebenpfeiffer: (Imagining) First Contact – Literary Encounters of the Extraterrestrial Other in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Novels;139
15.1;1. Transforming the Universe – the `pluralité des mondes' and the Question of Life in Outer Space;140
15.2;2. First Contact – Francis Godwin's Voyage to the Moon;143
15.3;3. Satirical Counterparts – Cyrano de Bergerac meets Domingo Gonzales;146
15.4;4. Martian prophecies – Kindermann's Exploration of the Future of Humankind;148
15.5;5. Discovering the Human in Outer Space;151
15.6;References;154
16;Helga Schwalm: Lives of the Physicians – Samuel Johnson, Medicine and Biography;157
16.1;References;167
16.1.1;Primary Literature;167
16.1.2;Secondary Literature;168
17;Birgit Mara Kaiser: Electrified Humans – Of Inhuman Affects in Heinrich von Kleist;171
17.1;The Striking Life of Humans, Between Electricity and Organisms;173
17.2;Electrified Humans and Inhuman Affects in Kleist;177
17.3;References;184
17.3.1;Primary Literature;184
17.3.2;Secondary Literature;184
18;Ute Berns: Artificial Life, Science and Reflexivity in James Whale's Frankenstein;187
18.1;1.;187
18.2;2.;189
18.3;3.;194
18.4;4.;199
18.5;References;202

Über Autor(innen)

Blackmore, Sabine
Sabine Blackmore is junior lecturer and research assistant at the English department of Humboldt-Universität, where she is completing her PhD thesis on female melancholy in early eighteenth century poems. Her research interests focus on melancholy and gender before 1800, medicine and literature, as well as crime fiction, topics on which she has published journal articles.

Haekel, Ralf
Dr. Ralf Haekel is Juniorprofessor of English Literature and Culture at Göttingen University. His research interests include Early Modern drama, science in British Romanticism and literature and media studies. His new book ‘The Soul in British Romanticism’ will be published later this year.