Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife

244 Pages·2003·1.28 MB·English

by  Charles I. Armstrong

Romantic Organicism
From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife
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I (said he) hunt by the eye, like a Grey-hound. I see what my Object is: and dash
in a strait line towards it. But you hunt with your nose to the earth: track the
Prey thro’ every bend & zigzag, in and out thro’ the whole maze of Puss’ or
Renyard’s Feet – and at the end what do you catch? – Why the Scent, perhaps, of
the Hare or Vermin which I had killed an hour before, after a five minutes’ Run.
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
This book was made possible by a grant from the Norwegian Research 8
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Council (Norges Forskningsråd). Thanks are due the staff and students of 03-
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indebted to the expertise and unfailing encouragement of Ellen Mortensen. C
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Dag Andersson (University of Tromsø), Simon Critchley (University of gra
Essex), Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary and Westfield University), Hans Hauge Pal
(University of Aarhus), and Gisle Selnes (University of Bergen) have read so -
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my manuscript at various stages of completion, all responding generously o
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with tips and suggestions. I would also like to thank Per Buvik, Rune Falch, et i
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Erik Bjerck Hagen, Nils-Øivind Haagensen, Atle Kittang, Ingrid Nielsen, ote
Frode Helmich Pedersen, Stuart Sillars, Nora Simonhjell, Torgeir Skorgen, bli
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Lars Sætre, and Tiril Broch Aakre, as well as Emily Rosser and Rebecca ets
Mashayekh at Palgrave Macmillan, for their assistance. I am especially ersit
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Norwegian article ‘Fra kritikk til organisme: Systemtenkning i Kant og den m - li
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tyske idealismen,’ published in Prosopopeia(number 2, 2001), 50–8. ct.c
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in Literature and Theology(Vol. 14, number 4, December 2000), 363–72. gra
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Coleridge’s Conversation Poems,’ in the Coleridge Bulletin(Number 14 (NS), al fr
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