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The modernist movement has been regarded as representing a crisis point in Western thought. This volume looks at that crisis in terms of its reinterpretation of ideas concerning vitalism: the animation of the universe, whether spiritual or based in physical energies) of the universe. Beginning with vitalism's historical background in the enlightenment and the nineteenth century, and moving through

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Focusing on the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the modern periods, contributors from linguistics, art history, music, dance, literary history, and perceptual psychology explore the complex relation between the study of appearances in science and in art. A unifying theme is the perceptual process by which sensory data are integrated into a mental gestalt or are transformed into a verbal or visual

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The major work of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1808), was translated into English by one of Britain's most capable mediators of German literature and philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Goethe himself twice referred to Coleridge's translation of his Faust. Goethe's character wrestles with the very metaphysical and theological problems that preoccupied Coleridge: the mea

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ISBN: 9783484156302

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The volume is an annotated collection of the extant and reconstructed letters written (107) and received (94) by Arnim in his school and university years up to the beginning of his educative travels. A substantial number of the texts are published here for the first time. The letters and notes are not only of interest for the information they give us about Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781-1831) himsel

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ISBN: 9783484156319

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The volume contains Arnim's correspondence during his educational journey (1802-1804) and comprises 117 letters from his own hand (that have either come down to us or can be reconstructed) and 89 letters addressed to him, all provided here with detailed notes. A substantial portion of the edited texts is printed here either for the first time or for the first time in full (29 by Arnim and 28 to hi

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ISBN: 9780521412940

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The modernist movement has been regarded as representing a crisis point in Western thought. This volume looks at that crisis in terms of its reinterpretation of ideas concerning vitalism: the animation of the universe, whether spiritual or based in physical energies) of the universe. Beginning with vitalism's historical background in the enlightenment and the nineteenth century, and moving through

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ISBN: 9789042000650

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ISBN: 9783484156104

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Ludwig Achim von Arnim's adaptation of the medieval saga of the female pope Johanna is typically romantic in the way it combines epic, lyrical, and dramatic elements. This is the first edition of the work to provide an authentic version based on the manuscripts. The work itself caused a considerable stir amongst contemporary authors, with Jacob Grimm even comparing it to Goethe's »Faust«. It is

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ISBN: 9783484108202

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The topics of the colloquium of the International Arnim Society in the summer of 1998 were Arnim's biography, his literary and scientific writings from his childhood and student years up to the time of his travels abroad. The complexity of his intellectual life, his extensive literary production, and the breadth of his education were examined, and interconnections among various aspects of his care

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ISBN: 9783484156012

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The volume contains Achim von Arnim's (1781-1831) writings during the period of his school and university education, between 1791 and 1800. With a few exceptions the texts are previously unpublished. They range from prescribed exercises and copied extracts to independently formulated essays and speeches on social, historical, philosophical and criminal law themes, partly with fictional or autobiog

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ISBN: 9783484156029

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The second volume of the Weimarer Arnim-Edition contains all of Arnim's published essays on natural science. With his summaries and theoretical essays on electricity, magnetism, and galvanism he concentrated on the significant contemporary discoveries. He commands a truly encyclopaedic mastery of the scientific knowledge of his times. Together with Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph S