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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 ...
Charles Darwin y la Descripción de la Naturaleza
(2015-05-11)
Se detectan dos formas diferentes de descripción en la obra de Darwin
Journal of Researches (1839): una forma estética de percibir el paisaje y una forma
enumerativa. Aquélla correspondería a los comentarios que Darwin ...
Imagen del mundo, percepción y descripción de la naturaleza. Un estudio comparado en torno a las presuposiciones onto-epistemológicas en la poesía romántica inglesa y la prosa científica de Charles Darwin
(2016-06-30)
Esta tesis es un estudio comparado de las descripciones de la naturaleza de dos tipos de sujeto cognitivo: de un lado, poetas reconocidos del Romanticismo inglés como William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy ...
Percepción, descripción y explicación en la obra de Alexander von Humboldt
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2017-09-01)
Es recurrente la tendencia a considerar a Alexander von Humboldt como autor romántico-naturalista, dada la combinación del método científico de análisis empírico de la naturaleza con su visión estético-subjetiva que posee ...
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 ...
Charles Darwin y el 'desencantamiento' weberiano
(Universidad de Murcia, 2017-07-18)
Este artículo pretende poner de manifiesto una interrelación permanente entre dos metáforas darwinianas como “la orilla enmarañada”, presente en On the Origin of Species, y la relativa al “daltonismo”, mencionada en ...