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A Comparative study on the onto-epistemological presuppositions in landscape descriptions of romantics and naturalists
(2015-05-11)
Two facts are noteworthy in standard historiography on the perception and description of nature: (a) Apart from occasional exceptions (Hard 1970), there is no conceptual analysis of the onto-epistemological presuppositions ...
Metaphysics in the Work of Charles Darwin
(Simon Baumgartner, Thimo Heisenberg , Sebastian Krebs, 2013)
It is not hard to see how two visions of nature are intertwined in Darwin’s Journal of Researches: one vision, the province of romantic authors depicting the sentiments awakened by certain landscapes, the other, the domain ...
Romanticism, Alexander von Humboldt and the distinction of “Natur” and “Geist”
(2017-02-28)
Alexander von Humboldt is often considered a decisive figure in establishing clear methodological standards in modern natural sciences. But many people forget that he was a true Romanticist in his descriptions of nature ...
The Deteleologization of Nature: Darwin’s Language in On the Origin of Species
(De Gruyter, 2018)
Although a detailed analysis of Darwin’s lexicon in On the Origin of Species has not been undertaken, critical literature claims that there are lexical signs of a teleological nature in the language used in this work. I ...
Darwin's Perception of Nature and the Question of Disenchantment: a Semantic Analysis Across the Six Editions of On the Origin of Species
(Springer, 2021-04-14)
This body of work is motivated by an apparent contradiction between, on the one hand, Darwin's testimony in his autobiographical text about a supposed perceptual colour blindness before the aesthetic magnificence of natural ...
You too Can Find ‘Grandeur in this View of Life.’ A Linguistic Remedy for Resisting the Desire to Abandon Darwin’s Origin of Species
(Springer, 2023-10-11)
Given the scientific, socio-cultural, philosophical, and anthropological implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, it should be within reach of every motivated reader to discover its theoretical intricacies by ...
Conceptual Basis for William Wordsworth’s Rejection to Science. Computational Analysis of the Lexicon in The Prelude
(UNED, 2019-11-01)
Much of the literary criticism devoted to interpreting the work of W. Wordsworth tries, on the one hand, to overcome and moderate, or, on the other hand, to directly accept the manifest opposition against science and ...
Journey from Enchantment to Disenchantment?A Study on Darwin’s Descriptions of Nature from the Journal to the Origin
(Universidad de Murcia, 2021-05-01)
Taking into accountthe disputed ques-tion about enchantment or disenchantment of the world caused by modern science, this paper com-paratively examines the semantics of the lexicon of Charles Darwin’s Journal of ...
Darwin Puzzled? A Computer-assisted Analysis of Language in the Origin of Species
(Springer, 2021-06-05)
The aesthetically optimistic view of life in the last paragraph of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species contrasts with the evidence in his autobiography of a supposed perceptive colour blindness to the magnificence of nature. ...