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Umfang: 1 online resource (224 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 3-031-52531-0

Serie: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences Series

Anmerkung: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Introduction: Carl Gustav Carus - A Wholistic Humanist -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Feeling into the World -- Chapter 1: The Calming Quietude of Nature and Its Disturbances -- Early Childhood -- Higher Education -- Political Zigzags of Sachsen During Napoleonic Wars -- The French Occupation: Observing the Others -- Career Change: Becoming the Head of a French Field Hospital -- Chapter 2: The Charms of Dresden -- Dresden as the Meeting Ground of Arts and Sciences -- Entering the Art Scene: Self-Presentation of Life Philosophy -- The Central Feeling: Fascination with Twilight -- Caspar David Friedrich: Mentor and Friend in Melancholic Nature Painting -- Johann Christian Dahl: The Painter of Dramas of Nature -- From Art to Science: Geognostic Unification -- Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817): Geological Divinity -- Cultural Activities in Dresden -- Children: The Drama of Ordinary Living -- Conclusion: Finding a Feeling of Home -- Chapter 3: Friends, Adorations, and Obligations -- Life Course Transitions in Interests -- Friendships and Devotions -- Johann Gottlob Regis (1791-1854) -- Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) -- Ida von Lüttichau (1798-1856) -- Adoration of Goethe -- Conclusion: The Life of a Humanistic Naturforscher -- Chapter 4: Nostalgia for Novelty -- Searching for the Sea: Trip to the North -- Travel to Prague 1820 -- First Encounter with Italy: Genoa 1821 -- The Traveling Leibarzt -- The Second Italian Einfühlung: Art and Nature -- Reaching Rome -- The Charms of the South -- The Nature in Italy -- Innovation in Travel: The Arrival of Railway to Dresden -- Third Italian Journey: Florence 1841 -- The Royal Visit: England and Scotland in 1844 -- Scotland: On the Border of the Sea and the Rocks -- Return to Germany: Feeling into the Sea -- Conclusion: Travel as an Inward Exploration. , Part II: Living as Feeling -- Chapter 5: Sketching Nature and Naturphilosophie -- From Romantic Weltanschauung to the Naturphilosophie -- Nature Studies and Naturphilosophie -- The Birth of Biology as a Knowledge Domain -- The Society of German Naturalists and Medical Doctors -- Carus as a Narurphilosopher -- The Positive Loneliness of the Natural Scientist -- The Key Predecessor: Karl Friedrich Burdach -- The Study of Insects: Discovery of the Order in Hemolymph Circulation -- Eyes of Freshwater Mussels -- Carus and Alexander von Humboldt -- The Nature on the Skull: Carus' Version of Cranioscopy -- Main Conclusion: Naturphilosophie as the Generalized Synthesis of Knowledge -- Chapter 6: Letters on Landscape Painting -- Conclusion: The Art that Presents Nature Beyond Its Reality -- Chapter 7: Erdleben: Living with Nature -- Divine Geology: The Traditions of Geognostic Painting -- Erdleben as a Personal Project: Life Philosophy of a Natural Scientist -- LEIBEND➔LEBEND➔LEBEN -- Conclusion: Erdleben and Lebenskunst -- Part III: The Science Through Art -- Chapter 8: Painting as Wissenschaft -- Returns to San Pietro: The Painter's Image Contexts -- Three Wise Men at the Sunset -- Trying to Know Eternity: Feeling into Life Through Death -- Cemeteries as Meeting Places -- The Cemetery in Inning -- Painting Heterotopias -- Conclusion: Generalizations Beyond the Canvas -- What Kind of Wissenschaft Is Painting? -- Chapter 9: Poetry and Music: Translations for the Soul -- The Importance of Dante -- Carus Painting Dante -- The Royal Project: Translating Dante -- Prince Johann-Sasso di Dante -- The Long Process of Translation -- Music as the Link Between Science and Art -- The Special Place of Beethoven -- Conclusion: Translating for the Philosophy of Living -- Chapter 10: The Unconscious as a Product of the Nervous System -- Carus on the Unconscious. , The Archetype (Urtyp) -- Triggers for Archetypes -- Variability Beyond Types: Night Becomes a Day-And Life Goes on in Between -- Conclusion: The Positive Relevance of the Unconscious -- Chapter 11: Beginnings of Developmental Science -- Natural Philosophy of Metamorphosis -- Elaboration of Differentiation Theory of Development -- The Gestalt of the Human Head: A Geological Look Upon the Human Skull -- From Comparative Anatomy to Comparative Psychology: The Last Step -- Setting the Stage for Developmental Science -- Conclusion: Development as Gestalt Transformation -- Chapter 12: General Conclusion: Where Science Lives - Landscapes of the Soul -- Crossing the Emerging Borders -- Learning Through Carus -- Gestalt, Ganzheit, and the Missing Clouds -- Metamorphosis and Development -- Polarity of Concepts and the Inherent Ambivalence Within Systems -- The Focus on Symbolic Transformation of Meanings -- The Mystique of the Real -- Processes of Generalization: Through Metaphors to Overwhelming Understanding -- Allegory as the Highest (and Most Indeterminate) Organizer of the Psyche -- Bibliography -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 3-031-52530-2

Sprache: Englisch