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Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature

 

David Seamon & Arthur Zajonc, Editors

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Preface

List of Figures

 

Goethe, Nature, and Phenomenology:

An Introduction                                                                                                              David Seamon

 

Chap. 1. Goethe and the Science of his Time: An Historical Introduction                           Arthur Zajonc

 

Part I. Goethean Science: Philosophical Foundations

 

Chap. 2. The Metamorphosis of the Scientist                                                              Frederick Amrine

 

Chap. 3. Goethean Science                                                                                             Walter Heitler

 

Chap. 4. Goethe, Science, and Sensory Experience                                                        Herbert Hensel

 

Chap. 5. The Idea in Nature: Rereading Goethe's Organics                                                 R. H. Brady

 

Part II. Doing Goethean Science

 

Chap. 6. Transformations in the Foliage Leaves of the Higher Plants                          Jochen Bockemühl

 

Chap. 7. The Unity of Science and Art:

Goethean Phenomenology as a New Ecological Discipline                                             Nigel Hoffmann

 

Chap. 8. Horns, Hooves, Spots, and Stripes:

Form and Pattern in Mammals                                                                                         Mark Riegner

 

Chap. 9. Seeing the Animal Whole:

The Example of the Horse and Lion                                                                               Craig Holdrege

 

Chap. 10. Flowforms and the Language of Water                                     Mark Riegner & John Wilkes

 

Part III. The Future of Goethean Science

Chap. 11. The Resurrection of Thinking and the Redemption of Faust    Alan Cottrell

Chap. 12.Counterfeit and Authentic Wholes:

Finding a Means for Dwelling in Nature                                                                             Henri Bortoft

 

Chap. 13. Light and Cognition:

Goethean Studies as a Science of the Future                                                                    Arthur Zajonc

 

Contributors

 

 

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