商品簡介
Describes the origins of epigenesis, the theory that organisms generate themselves under the guidance of a formative drive, looking at how it came to replace the reigning model of preformation. Discusses the role of epigenesis in Kant's concepts of the origin of the categories and the validity of aesthetic and teleological judgements, examines the concept of self-generation in the work of Fichte, Herder, and Humboldt, and demonstrates the biological, philosophical, and linguistic problems of self-generation at the heart of novels by Goethe and Beaumarchais. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
Helmut Muller-Sievers is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Epigenesis: Naturphilosophie im Sprachdenken Wilhelm von Humboldts.
