Contagion

Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism

By: David Farrell Krell

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"Krell writes here with a brilliance of style that few other philosophers can match." --John Sallis

Although the Romantic Age is usually thought of as idealizing nature as the source of birth, life, and creativity, David Farrell Krell focuses on the preoccupation of three key German Romantic thinkers--Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel--with nature's destructive powers--contagion, disease, and death.

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Thaumaturgic Idealism: Novalis's Scientific-Philosophical Notebooks of 1798-1800
The First Kiss	p. 31
A Poetics of the Baneful	p. 46
Touching, Contact, Contagion	p. 54
The Artist of Immortality	p. 61
Tormented Idealism: Schelling's First Projection of a System of Nature Philosophy (1799)
First Projection: An Outline of the Whole	p. 73
Sexual Opposition, Inhibition, Contagion	p. 90
The Bridge to Death	p. 100
The Ultimate Source of Life	p. 109
Triumphant Idealism: Hegel's Early Philosophy of Nature in the Jena Realphilosophie of 1805/06
Nature's Seductive Impotence	p. 117
Turned to the Outside: The Dialectic of Genitality	p. 126
Turned to the Inside: The Dialectic of Death	p. 145
Conclusion: A Triumph of Ashes	p. 161
Notes	p. 169
Annotated Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 235
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Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism

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