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Bifocal Vision: Novalis' Philosophy of Nature and Disease

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John Neubauer
1971
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
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Relying on an edition of Novalis' notebooks which includes much of the author's scientific and philosophical musings, Neubauer's study evaluates Novalis' outline for a creative science and philosophical background of the eighteenth century. Concentrating on his study of physiology and medicine, this work illuminates Novalis' changing perspectives on the relationship between the imagination and the material world, and whether a synthesis between the two is possible.

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Cover

Half-Title Page

pp. i

Series Page

pp. ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv-vi

Foreword

pp. vii-viii

Contents

pp. ix-x

Introduction

pp. 1-15

I. Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Science

pp. 16-26

II. Sources and Impulses

pp. 31-56

III. The Anthropology and Physiology of Magic

pp. 57-71

IV. Ideas For an Encyclopedia

pp. 76-91

V. Sensibility and Medicine

pp. 95-111

VI. The Case of Die Lehrlinge zu Sais

pp. 113-127

VII. The Last Years

pp. 128-137

Notes

pp. 144-170

Appendices

pp. 171-179

Bibliography

pp. 180-186

Index

pp. 187-194
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