Johann Wolfgang yon Goethe ranks with Shakespeare as a European man
of letters, playwright, and poet. But he himself considered that
his scientific work was far more important than all his other
achievements. In the twentieth century his ideas have been given
special attention by scientists such as Adolf Portmann and Werner
Heisenberg.
Jeremy Naydler provides for the first time a systematic
arrangement of extracts from Goethe's major scientific works to
provide a dear picture of Goethe's fundamentally different approach
to scientific study of the natural world. According to Goethe, our
deepest knowledge of phenomena can arise only from a contemplative
relationship with nature, in which our feelings of awe and wonder
are intrinsic. As conceived by him, science is as much a path of
inner development as it is a way to accumulating knowledge. It
therefore involves a rigorous training of our faculties of
observation and thinking.
From a Goethean standpoint, our modern ecological crisis is a
crisis of relationship to nature. Goethe shows us a path of
sensitive science that holds the potential for healing both nature
and ourselves.
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