商品簡介
It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp.1740-1920. The history of vitalism is considered in the context of contemporary discourses on radical reality (or deep naturalism).
作者簡介
John A. McCarthy is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. He also held appointments in European Studies and Religious Studies. His research gravitates to interconnections between literature, science, philosophy, religion, and law. Of special note is his study of paradigm shifts in literature and science, Remapping Reality: On Chaos and Creativity in Science & Literature (2006). His more recent relevant publications include “Energy and Schiller’s Aesthetics from the Philosophical to the Aesthetic Letters” (2011), “Nietzsche’s Vitalism and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution” (2011), and “Cognitive Mapping: Adam, Venus, and Faust” (2013). Stephanie M. Hilger is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds appointments in French, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the European Union Center. Her research focuses on gender, class, and race in British, French, and German literature, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to literature. Among her publications are Women Write Back (2009), Gender and Genre (2014), and the Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Medicine (forthcoming). Her current book project, “Liminal Bodies: Intersexuality in Literary and Medical Discourses,” investigates the literary and medical representation of individuals born with ambiguous genitalia from eighteenth-century Europe to present-day America. Heather I. Sullivan is Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Environmental Studies, and the faculty chair of the Sustainability Committee at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Sullivan has published widely in the US and in Europe on ecocriticism, material ecocriticism, the “dark pastoral,” Goethe’s science and literature, the German romantics, and eco-science fiction. Current projects include a co-edited volume on German Ecocriticism with a focus on texts of the Anthropocene, and a monograph on the Dark Pastoral, which considers global climate change literature in the Anthropocene. Nicholas Saul is Professor of German at the University of Durham, England. His chief scholarly interests are Romanticism, Realisms, Classical Modernism, Romanies and literary Darwinisms. Recent publications include The Evolution of Literature (2011). Currently, he is writing a monograph on Darwinism in German Literature 1859-2008. As holder of the Christopherson-Knott Fellowship he is leading a project on “The Experience of Emergence” at the Durham University Institute of Advanced Study 2014-2015.
