From Cosmology to Ecology; The Monist World-View in Germany from 1770 to 1930

ISBN-13: 9783039103065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 406 str.

Jacobsen, Eric Paul

Opis

This book traces the development of the monist world-view in Germany from the Age of Goethe to the 1920s. Originally a core idea in the philosophy of Spinoza, monism, the idea of a universe of one substance that is both mind and matter, inspired many German thinkers from Goethe to Fechner, especially the infamous social Darwinist Ernst Haeckel. This study contrasts Haeckel s monism with the more benign monist world-views of his predecessors and of his socialist and left-liberal contemporaries and followers, above all Bruno Wille and Wilhelm Bolsche."

Recenzje

«Based on a detailed reading of little-known German sources, the author offers an excellent interpretation of a neglected and underrated current of German thought.» (International Review of Biblical Studies)
«This monograph will be useful as an English-language survey of this material and of recent research on it.» (David Midgley, The Modern Language Review)

Spis treści

Contents: Architects of the monist idea from Spinoza to Fechner - Ernst Haeckel's «Monismus» and its reception - Monist movement of the «Friedrichshagener» writers - Conclusion: monist musings at the dawn of a new century.

O autorze

The Author: Eric Paul Jacobsen was born near Cleveland, Ohio. He has a BA in German from the College of Wooster (1989) and an M.A. in German literature with a minor in music history from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (1992). He completed his doctoral studies with a minor in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of Jost Hermand.