April 4, 2025 | SEASON I, EPISODE II
Around the time he was finishing the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel almost became director of Goethe’s botanical gardens in Jena. We play around with affinities between Goethe’s botany and Hegel’s idealism.
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RECOMMENDED READING
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel (Author), Terry Pinkard (Editor), Michael Baur (Editor, Translator)
Goethe’s Botanical Writings
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author)
The Metamorphosis of Plants
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author), Gordon L. Miller (Photographer, Introduction)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author), Michael Hulse (Editor, Translator, Introduction)
Faust Paperback
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Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
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The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life
by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (Author)
Italian Journey: 1786-1788
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author), W. H. Auden (Translator), Elizabeth Mayer (Translator)
Theory of Colours
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author), Charles Lock Eastlake (Translator), Deane B. Judd (Introduction)
Systema Naturae
by Carlus Linnaeus (Author)
Species Plantarum
by Carolus Linnaeus (Author)
Termini Botanici
by Carolus Linnaeus (Author)
The Göttingen School and the Development of Transcendental Naturphilosophie in the Romantic Era
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The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth-Century German Biology
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The Origin of Goethe’s Thinking on Animal Morphology
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Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and “The Loves of the Plants”
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La Botanique de J. J. Rousseau
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RESOURCES
The Hegel Society of America (HSA)
Kritisches Journal der Philosophie
Friedrich Schelling, Georg Hegel (editors)