{"product_id":"sweet-science-amanda-jo-goldstein-9780226484709","title":"Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life","description":"Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In \u003ci\u003eSweet Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Goldstein puts apparently literary projects, such as William Blake's poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe's journals \u003ci\u003eOn Morphology\u003c\/i\u003e, and Percy Shelley's \"poetry of life,\" back into conversation with the openly poetic life sciences of Erasmus Darwin, J. G. Herder, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and ﾉtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Such poetic sciences, Goldstein argues, share in reviving Lucretius's \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura\u003c\/i\u003e to advance a view of biological life as neither self-organized nor autonomous, but rather dependent on the collaborative and symbolic processes that give it viable and recognizable form. They summon \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura \u003c\/i\u003efor a logic of life resistant to the vitalist stress on self-authorizing power and to make a monumental case for poetry's role in the perception and communication of empirical realities. The first dedicated study of this mortal and materialist dimension of Romantic biopoetics, \u003ci\u003eSweet Science\u003c\/i\u003e opens a through-line between Enlightenment materialisms of nature and Marx's coming historical materialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda Jo Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022648470X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226484709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Amanda Jo Goldstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946343792895,"sku":"9780226484709","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a0401fad-8378-4edd-b07a-2294274c9c2a.jpg?v=1681512610","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sweet-science-amanda-jo-goldstein-9780226484709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}