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Sweet Science - Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life (Paperback)
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Sweet Science - Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life (Paperback)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid
information. But it was not always so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo
Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor
between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic
life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of
empirical inquiry. Goldstein puts apparently literary projects,
such as William Blake's poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe's journals
On Morphology, and Percy Shelley's "poetry of life," back into
conversation with the openly poetic life sciences of Erasmus
Darwin, J. G. Herder, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Etienne Geoffroy
Saint-Hilaire. Such poetic sciences, Goldstein argues, share in
reviving Lucretius's De rerum natura to advance a view of
biological life as neither self-organized nor autonomous, but
rather dependent on the collaborative and symbolic processes that
give it viable and recognizable form. They summon De rerum natura
for a logic of life resistant to the vitalist stress on
self-authorizing power and to make a monumental case for poetry's
role in the perception and communication of empirical realities.
The first dedicated study of this mortal and materialist dimension
of Romantic biopoetics, Sweet Science opens a through-line between
Enlightenment materialisms of nature and Marx's coming historical
materialism.
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