Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism

by David Farrell Krell

Book Overview

"Krell writes here with a brilliance of style that few other philosophers can match." --John Sallis

Although the Romantic Age is usually thought of as idealizing nature as the source of birth, life, and creativity, David Farrell Krell focuses on the preoccupation of three key German Romantic thinkers--Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel--with nature's destructive powers--contagion, disease, and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253211700
• ISBN13: 9780253211705
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher