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This pioneering book evaluates the early history of embodied cognition. It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp. 1740-1920. The history of vitalism is considered in the context of contemporary discourses on radical reality (or deep naturalism). We ask how animate matter and cognition arise and are maintained through agent-environment dynamics (Whitehead) or performance (Pickering). This book adopts a nonrepresentational approach to studying perception, action, and cognition, which Anthony Chemero designated radical embodied cognitive science. From early physiology to psychoanalysis, from the microbiome to memetics, appreciation of body and mind as symbiotically interconnected with external reality has steadily increased. Leading critics explore here resonances of body, mind, and environment in medical history (Reil, Hahnemann, Hirschfeld), science (Haller, Goethe, Ritter, Darwin, L. Büchner), musical aesthetics (E.T.A. Hoffmann, Wagner), folklore (Grimm), intersex autobiography (Baer), and stories of crime and aberration (Nordau, Döblin). Science and literature both prove to be continually emergent cultures in the quest for understanding and identity. This book will appeal to intertextual readers curious to know how we come to be who we are and, ultimately, how the Anthropocene came to be.
Contents
Preface
Establishing Parameters: Lebenskraft and Artifact
1. John A. McCarthy (Vanderbilt U), "Introduction: Life Matters"
2. Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth (Allegheny College PA), "Pneuma—Sexuality—Sex Difference: From Arabic to European Philosophy and Medical Practice"
3. Ingo Uhlig (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), "Ordnung des Lebendigen. Naturgeschichtliche Malereien im Kabinett der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle"
4. Brian T. McInnis (USMA, West Point, NY). "Haller, Unzer, and Science as Process"
Blood, Nerves, Resonance
5. James Kennaway (Newcastle, UK), "Lebenskraft, the Body and Will Power: The Life Force in German Musical Aesthetics"
6. Alexis B. Smith (U of Oregon), "Ritter's Musical Blood Flow Through Hoffmann's Kreisler"
7. Alice Kuzniar (U of Waterloo, CAN), "Romantic Vitalism and Homeopathy's Law of Minimum"
8. Ann C. Schmiesing (U of Colorado, Boulder). "Folklore and Physiology: The Vitality of Blood in the Works of the Brothers Grimm"
Fitness and Fitting In
9. Nicholas Saul (U of Durham, UK). "Fitness, Nerves, the Degenerate Body and Identity: Radical Reality and Modernity in Max Nordau's Aesthetics and Fiction"
10. Stephanie Hilger (U of Illinois, Urbana/Champain). "No Body? Radical Gender in Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years (1907)"
11. Cate Reilly (Princeton U). "Naturphilosophie and Murder: The Limits of Scientific Explanation in Döblin's Die beiden Freundinnen"
The Lebenskraft-Debate Recast: The Posthuman and Radical Mediation
12. Heather Sullivan (Trinity U TX). "Agency in the Anthropocene: Goethe, Radical Reality, and the New Materialisms"
13. Monica Ledoux (Vanderbilt U), "Lebenskraft, Radical Reality, and Occidental Medicine: How Science is Leading us back to a Holistic View"
Epiloque: John A. McCarthy, "Lebenskraft Legacies"
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Notes on the Contributors
