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Information to Users INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. 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HOFFMANN DISSERTATION Presented in Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Ausma Skerbele Weisend, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. * * * * * The Ohio State University 1994 Dissertation Committee Approved by Hugo Bekker Mark Roche Michael Jones (U.of Kentucky) h . '^^avîsërT~GTsëï^~MT~vTt t Wrman Graduate Program ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I should like to thank Dr. Gisela M. Vitt for her helpful suggestions and guidance throughout the research. I am also grateful to Dr. Michael T. Jones for recommending the basic topic for this dissertation and for continued interest in this project. Gratitude is expressed to Dr. Mark Roche for helpful hints and suggestions and to German Graduate Program for their support.. 11 VITA December 21, 1929................ Born - Cesis, Latvia 1954.................................B.S. Western Michigan Univ Kalamazoo, Michigan 1960.................................Ph.D. Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 1960-1964...........................Physical Chemist, General Electric Co. Cincinnati, Ohio and Schenectady, New York 1964-1972...........................Fellow, Physical Chemistry, Mellon Institute, Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1985.................................M.A. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: German Studies in German Language and Literature 1 1 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS........................................ ü VITA................................................... iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.................................. vi INTRODUCTION................................................. 1 CHAPTER PAGE I. PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD......8 The Nature Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling. ......8 Problems of Nature Philosophy...................11 Poetry as the Bridge to the Infinite .....31 The Nature Philosophy of J.W. Ritter......... 38 II NOVALIS: POET, SCIENTIST, AND THINKER........ 55 Nature Philosophy in the Fragments of Novalis 61 General Principles.............................. 71 Nature’s Language............................... 76 Fantasy and Imagination......................... 82 Galvanism........................................ 87 Contact or Berührung............................ 98 Flame: Oxidation and Purification............. 105 Chance or Zufall............................... 112 Nature Philosophy in Lehrlinge zu Sais....... ,....117 The Great Goddess Isis......................... 119 Synthesis of Nature's Patterns............ ....125 The Figure of the Apprentice.............. ....134 Divergent Views of Nature..... ................ 136 Fairy Tale and the Concept of Love........ ....153 IV Voices of Nature............................... ,158 Conversations of Travelers.....................160 Nature Philosophy and Klingsohrs Harchen .....182 Arotur's Realm as the Realm of Physics........ 186 The Human World at the Beginning.............. ,205 Eros and Ginnistan........................ ,210 The Anti-World of the Fates................... 214 Transformation by Flame........................ 217 Chemical Transformations.......................223 . Transformation of Space and Time.............. 226 Stages of Galvanic Rebirth.................... 238 III G.H. SCHUBERT; NATURE MYTH AND PHILOSOPHY........ 250 Physical World in Schubert's View............. 257 Atmosphere......................................267 Plant Life..................................... 270 Animal Life.................................... 279 Sexuality and Polarity......................... 282 Death, Decay, and Primary Matter.............. 288 IV THE FAIRY TALES OF E.T.A. HOFFMANN................298 Music as Nature's Language.....................303 Fairy Tale as Opera Buffa......................305 Der goldne Topf : Transition to Atlantis.......... 307 Die Konigsbraut: Return to the Real World........ 322 Heister Floh: Synthesis of Real and Ideal........ 340 V . NATURE PHILOSOPHY DURING THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE NOW.......................... 373 BIBLIOGRAPHY.......................................384 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS E.T.A. HOFFMANN: FNS - Fantasie und Nachtstücke. München: Winkler 1985 SB - Die Serapionsbrüder. München: Winkler 1965 SW - Spate Werke. München: Winkler 1985 NOVALIS: NS - Novalis Schriften. Die Werke Friedrich von Har- denbergs. Ed. Paul Kluckhohn and Richard Samuel. Zweite nach den Handschriften erganzte, erweiterte und verbesserte Auflage in vier Bànden und einem Begleitband. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer NS I Das dichterische Werk, 1960 NS II Das philosophische Werk, I, 1985 NS III Das philosophische Werk, II, 1968 NS IV Tagebücher, Briefwechsel, Zeitgenossische Zeugnisse N III Novalis, vol. 3 Kommentar. Hans Jugen Balmes München: Hanser 1987. SCHELLING: SW - Schellings Werke, Nach der Originalausgabe in neuer Abordnung herausgegeben von Manfred Schroter. München: Beck 1927. SW I Jugendschriften 1793-1798. SW II (1799-1801) SCHUBERT: AGL Ahndungen einer allgemeinen Geschichte des Lebens. Leipzig: Reclam 1806-1821. ANN Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissens- chaften. Dresden: 1806 S Symbolik des Traumes. Bamberg: Runz 1814 VI INTRODUCTION Poetry and science appear to be diametrical opposites in our modern culture, and it is difficult to find any com­ mon ground where these two areas of human activity could meet. Poets and scientists have found this common ground in nature, although their approach to nature is entirely dif­ ferent. Science deals with the translation of natural phenomena in mathematical terms, and literature transforms individual perceptions in poetic language. During the romantic period in German literature poets, philosophers, and scientists attempted to find a synthesis of science and philosophy in a new philosophy of nature and to elevate humanity and the world by aesthetic experience. Early romanticism represents a unique combination of ideas in German literature. Philosophical influences during this period include Kant's critical philosophy, Fichte's transcendental philosophy and its extreme subjectivity, and Schelling's nature philosophy, where nature is endowed with a soul that is the fundamental organizing principle in the world. During the Enlightenment natural sciences were dominated by Newton's discoveries in physics. These discoveries defined mechanics and optics until the 2 beginning of the 20th century. Many changes and new discov­ eries took place as scientists learned to observe nature and conduct experiments. The probing, analytical spirit of the Enlightenment was the driving force behind these dis­ coveries. Empirical data were collected in astronomy, geol­ ogy, biology, and other natural sciences. These data were organized and classified to bring a certain order in the observed natural phenomena. Chemistry was changing from a mixture of alchemy and practical procedures in the new industries to a new and systematic branch of the physical sciences. Truly revolutionary was the discovery of gal­ vanism at the end of the 18th century that led to explora­ tion of electricity and magnetism and to the connection between these invisible forces. At this time philosophy still tried to provide a framework based on philosophical concepts that would organize empirical data that were collected in different areas of natural sciences and to combine them with past knowledge and experience. The nature philosophy, which was mainly developed by Schelling, was initiated not only by the stimulus of Kant's writings on the sciences, but also as an answer to the extreme subjectivity of Fichte's Wis- senschaftslehre. Schelling and many others of the romantic period were not satisfied with Fichte's definition of nature as a limiting
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