Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau

by Bernhard Kuhn and Bernhard Helmut Kuhn

Book Overview

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly fissuring disciplinary landscape where poetry and science are increasingly viewed as irreconcilable and unrelated, Bernhard Kuhn's study uncovers a previously ignored, fundamental connection between autobiography and the natural sciences. Examining the autobiographies and scientific writings of Rousseau, Goethe, and Thoreau as representative of their ages, Kuhn challenges the now entrenched thesis of the "two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113827836X
• ISBN13: 9781138278363
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"