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by Leif Weatherby (Author)
Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs--a metaphysics meant to theorize, and ultimately alter, the structure of a politically and scientifically destabilized world.
Author Biography
Leif Weatherby is Assistant Professor of German at New York University.