A Comparison of Selected Poetic & Scientific Works of Albrecht Von Haller (Leather) (ISBN-13: 9783261049063)

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 Über den Ursprung des Übels , 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.

Author: Katharina Mommsen,Dorothy Roller Wiswall
ISBN-10: 3261049065
ISBN-13: 9783261049063
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1981
Pages: 432
Format: Leather