The Rise of Modern Science and the Genesis of Romanticism

Eichner, Hans. "The Rise of Modern Science and the Genesis of Romanticism." PMLA 97 (Jan. 1982): 8-30.

The temporary "replacement of the mechanical philosophy by an organic view of the cosmos is one of the most significant features of Romanticism." Explains "why the Romantics felt compelled to attack the mechanical philosophy" of the Scientific Age; agrees with Morse "Peckham's findings that the new organicism accounts for a large part of Romantic theory" (quotations from HE's abstract). An important introd. to mechanism vs. organicism: a debate of great significance for machines and mechanized environments in the arts.

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