The metamorphosis of plants / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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The metamorphosis of plants / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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The vegetative soul : from philosophy of nature to subjectivity in the feminine / by Miller, Elaine P., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…KANT: The English Garden""; ""2. GOETHE: The Metamorphosis of Plants""; ""3. HÃ?LDERLIN: Gleaning""; ""4. …”
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The form of becoming : embryology and the epistemology of rhythm, 1760-1830 / by Wellmann, Janina

Table of Contents: “…Sense and verse : Goethe's Metamorphosis of plants ; 6. The rhythm of the living world : physiology circa 1800 -- Part III: Serial iconography. 7. …”
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The Will To Create : Goethe's Philosophy of Nature / by Tantillo, Astrida Orle

Table of Contents: “…The democracy of polar pairs -- Polarity and creation myths -- The theory of colors -- Perception and the physical and "spiritual" eyes -- The subject and object and the argument against hierarchy -- Nature's inner drive -- The metamorphosis of plants -- The transcendence of matter -- Steigerung and scientific writing -- The theory of colors -- The scientific methodology of Steigerung -- The red and the green -- The poetry of science -- The case against teleology -- Scientific methodology and the type -- The principle of compensation -- Goethe and evolution -- Inanimate nature and the "will" to create -- The aesthetics of compensation -- The coming-to-be of parts and wholes -- Natural insurrections -- The barnacles and the state of nature -- The natural philosophy of sex and gender -- Masculine and feminine tendencies -- Plants and human beings.…”
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Performing knowledge, 1750-1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Performing knowledge, 1750-1850 / Mary Helen Dupree and Sean Franzel -- Sounds and stages / Viktoria Tkaczyk -- The making of acoustics around 1800, or how to do science with words / Dietmar Till -- The fate of rhetoric in the "long" eighteenth century / Ellwood Wiggins -- Pity play: sympathy and spectatorship in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith's Theory of moral sentiments / Rebecca Wolf -- The sound of glass: transparency and danger / Mary Helen Dupree -- Early Schiller memorials (1805-1808) and the performance of literary knowledge / Hans-Georg von Arburg -- Modern architecture takes the stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's architectural spectacles: pedagogies and publics / Claire Baldwin -- Performance and play: Lichtenberg's lectures on experimental physics / Chad Wellmon -- Kant on the logic of anthropology and the ethics of disciplinarity / Michael Bies -- Staging the knowledge of plants: Goethe's elegy "The metamorphosis of plants" / Edgar Landgraf -- Playing to the public: performing politics in Heinrich von Kleist / Sean Franzel -- Constructions of the present and the philosophy of history in the lecture form / Adrian Daub -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century forms of musical knowledge: the case of the piano / Angela Esterhammer -- Afterword: the audience, the public, and the improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz.…”
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The Essential Goethe / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

Table of Contents: “…A TRAGEDY; WILHELM MEISTER'S APRENTICESHIP; ITALIAN JOURNEY: PART ONE; ON LITERATURE AND ART; On German Architecture (1772); Shakespeare: A Tribute (1771); Simple Imitation, Manner, Style (1789); Response to a Literary Rabble-Rouser (1795); Winckelmann and His Age (1805); Myron's Cow (1818); On World Literature; ON PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE; On Granite (1784); A Study Based on Spinoza (c. 1785); The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790)…”
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The Essential Goethe / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

Table of Contents: “…A TRAGEDY; WILHELM MEISTER'S APRENTICESHIP; ITALIAN JOURNEY: PART ONE; ON LITERATURE AND ART; On German Architecture (1772); Shakespeare: A Tribute (1771); Simple Imitation, Manner, Style (1789); Response to a Literary Rabble-Rouser (1795); Winckelmann and His Age (1805); Myron's Cow (1818); On World Literature; ON PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE; On Granite (1784); A Study Based on Spinoza (c. 1785); The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790).…”
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