| A Comparison of Selected Poetic & Scientific Works of Albrecht Von Haller Contributor(s): Mommsen, Katharina (Editor), Roller Wiswall, Dorothy (Author) |
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ISBN: 3261049065 ISBN-13: 9783261049063 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $121.55 Product Type: Leather Published: December 1981 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Series: Germanic Studies in America |
| Physical Information: 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book the author investigates the parallels between Haller's poetic and scientific writings by comparing selected poems from Haller's -Versuch Schweizerischer Gedichte- with various scientific works, with respect to subject matter, structure, and style. The themes discussed in the four chapters are: nature and landscape description; truth, reason, knowledge, and their limits; theodicy, infinity, and the search for original causes. Also, a specific philosophical problem, theodicy in the poem -Uber den Ursprung des Ubels-, is compared to a specific scientific problem, the nature of irritability and sensibility in -De partibus corporis humani sensilibus et irritabilibus-, with emphasis on Haller's working method." |