The Damnation of Newton: Goethe's Color Theory and Romantic Perception

by Frederick Burwick

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ISBN-13:	9783110107654
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	08/01/1986
Series:	Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker. N.F. , #86
Edition description:	Reprint 2012
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Frontmatter — Contents — Prelude in the Academy — I. Goethe’s Farbenlehre: The Newtonian Controversy — II. Goethe’s Entoptische Farben: The Problem of Polarity — III. Goethe’s Homunculus: The Mediation of Light — IV. Novalis: Transcendental Physics and the Sidereal Man — V. Achim von Arnim: The Galvanic Eye — VI. Wordsworth: An Auxiliar Light — VIII. Coleridge and Jean Paul: The Look of Limbo — VIII. Coleridge and Schlegel: The Glittering Eye — IX. Shelley: The “Traces” of Faust — Bibliography — Index — 309-310