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GOETHEAN SCIENCE

Goethe on Science

Goethes Botanical Writings
Goethe's Botanical Writings
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theory of Colours
Theory of Colours
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe's Way of Science
Goethe's Way of Science
Edited by David Seamon & Arthur Zajonc

Wholeness of Nature
Wholeness of Nature
by Henri Bortoft

Goethe contra Newton
Goethe contra Newton: Polemics and the Project for a New Science of Colour
by Dennis L. Sepper




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        Goethe's Delicate Empiricism
EDITORIAL

Editorial
(PDF 49 kb)
Brent Dean Robbins

Editorial
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Craig Holdrege

ESSAYS

Memory, History, Forgiveness: A Dialogue Between Paul Ricoeur and Sorin Antohi
(PDF 255 kb)
Paul Ricoeur and Sorin Antohi

Doing Goethean Science
(PDF 155 kb)
Craig Holdrege

"Zartre Empirie": Goethean Science as a Way of Knowing
(PDF 198 kb)
Daniel C. Wahl

Goethe's Way of Science as a Phenomenology of Nature
(PDF 147 kb)
David Seamon

New Organs of Perception: Goethean Science as a Cultural Therapeutics
(PDF 222 kb)
Brent Dean Robbins

Goethe and the Refiguring of Intellectual Inquiry: From 'Aboutness'-Thinking to 'Withness'- Thinking in Everyday Life
(PDF 331 kb)
John Shotter

Goethe, Husserl, and the Crisis of the European Sciences
(PDF 295 kb)
Eva-Maria Simms

Place, Goethe and Phenomenology
(PDF 172 kb)
John Cameron

Goethe and the Poetics of Science
(PDF 186 kb)
Dennis L. Sepper

The Proteus Within: Thoreau's Practice of  Goethe's Phenomenology
(PDF 127 kb)
Christina Root

Anschauung and the Archetype: The Role of Goethe's Delicate Empiricism in Comparative Biology
(PDF 172 kb)
Malte C. Ebach

Goethe and the Molecular Aesthetic
(PDF 186 kb)
Maura C. Flannery

Goethe: A Science Which Does Not Eat the Other
(PDF 127 kb)
Bill Bywater

Emerging Out of Goethe: Conversation as a Form of Social Inquiry
(PDF 127 kb)
Allan Kaplan

FICTION

Casanova Meets Goethe:
An excerpt from the novel, Casanova in Bohemia

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Andrei Codrescu

ART

Horns 2

Photography
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Syrie Kovitz

Doorway

Photography
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Brad Fuller

POETRY

Two poems
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Robert Bly

Four poems
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Pattiann Rogers

Visitors
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Andrei Codrescu

Three poems
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Richard Hoffman

Meditation
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Martin Steingesser

The Whore, or a Bull
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Sarah Biggs

Three poems
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Elizabeth Bradfield

Budapest
(PDF 43 kb)
Annie Seikonia

Three poems
(PDF 38 kb)
Bin Bin (translated by Ouyang Yu)

Anschauung
(PDF 54 kb)
Malte C. Ebach

Heart of Earth
(PDF 43 kb)
Kenneth Rosen

BOOK REVIEWS

Philosophy of the Animal
Review of Animal Philosophy: Ethics and Identity
Edited by Peter Atterton & Matthew Calarco
(PDF 59 kb)
Reviewer: Donald L. Turner

Deleuze's Catch After His Surrender to Bacon
Review of Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
by Gilles Deleuze
(PDF 53 kb)
Reviewer: Andrew Feldmar

The Will to Murder
Review of The Nature of Truth
by Sergio Troncoso
(PDF 58 kb)
Reviewer: Bryan R. Farrow

Taking Bataille Seriously
Review of The Sunday of the Negative: Reading Bataille Reading Hegel
by Christopher M. Gemerchak
(PDF 61 kb)
Reviewer: Brent Dean Robbins

In Borges' Shadow
Review of The Lesson of the Master
by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni
(PDF 59 kb)
Reviewer: Kimberly Brown

Specifying Badiou
Review of Badiou: A Subject to Truth
by Peter Hallward
(PDF 78 kb)
Reviewer: Stuart Elden

Finding Their Voices: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Review of Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy
Edited by Linda Martin Alcoff
(PDF 84 kb)
Reviewer: Claudette Kulkarni

Bergson's Challenge to Phenomenology, Ontology and Ethics
Review of The Challenge of Bergsonism
by Leonard Lawlor
(PDF 53 kb)
Reviewer: James McLachlan

Exposure to the Posthuman Other
Review of Avatar Bodies: A Trantra for Posthumanism
by Ann Weinstone
(PDF 57 kb)
Reviewer: Steven A. Benko

Historical Relapse, False Memory, and Other Oddities in the Time-Space Continuum
Review of Deja Vu: Abberations of Cultural Memory
by Peter Krapp
(PDF 52 kb)
Reviewer: Ivy Cooper

The Embrace of Paradox for the Healing of Humankind
Review of Dimensions of Apeiron: A Topological Phenomenology of Space, Time, and Individuation
by Steven M. Rosen
(PDF 84 kb)
Reviewer: Elizabeth McCardell

Beyond the Narrative View of Life-History
Review of The Wild-Region in Life History
by  Laszlo Tengelyi (translated by Geza Kallay)
(PDF 53 kb)
Reviewer: Louis Hoffman

The Objects of Scientific Desire
Review of The Objects of Social Science
by Eleonora Montuschi
(PDF 57 kb)
Reviewer: Brian Caterino

Fact or Fiction
Review of Jewish Philosophy: An Historical Introduction
by Norbert M. Samuelson
(PDF 52 kb)
Reviewer: C. Oscar Jacob

CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors
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