Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-447) and index
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Toward Organology -- 1. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach -- 2. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder -- 3. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ -- pt. II Romantic Organology: Toward a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment -- 4. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Hölderlin) -- 5. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology -- 6. Universal Organs: Novalis's Romantic Organology -- 7. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology -- pt. III After Organology -- 8. Technologies of Nature: Goethe's Hegelian Transformations -- 9. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology