Natural Science in German Romanticism

German Romanticism and Science. The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter (review)

reconstructing german idealism and romanticism : historicism and presentism

When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

German Medical Science: Editorial 2014

At the end of the year 2013 the open access portal “German Medical Science” (gms) has attained a well-established stage of development documented by the number of published articles and abstracts and by the electronic visits to the portal. Meanwhile 3,208 articles and 46,800 abstracts have been published. The portal will this year integrate a section for electronic books, the first project pend...

Evangelical Christianity and Romanticism

Dr. Bebbington is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. This article is the second in a series of three entitled 'Evangelical Christianity and Western Culture Since the Eighteenth Century' and was presented by the author in the Staley Lectures at Regent College in April1989. (The first lecture in the series was published in the December 1989 issue of Crux.) The lec...

Post-Normal Science in a German Landscape

This essay explores the management and creation of ignorance via an exploration of the landscape of eastern Germany, which has seen profound social, political, and technological changes over the past several decades. Like in many places around the world decision makers in eastern Germany are seeking to reach a future state where seemingly conflicting outcomes related to the economy and the envi...