How Long to Read The Romantic Conception of Life

How Long Does it Take to Read The Romantic Conception of Life?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 41 minutes to read The Romantic Conception of Life by Robert J. Richards

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integrating Romantic literature, science, and philosophy with an intimate knowledge of the individuals involved—from Goethe and the brothers Schlegel to Humboldt and Friedrich and Caroline Schelling—Richards demonstrates how their tempestuous lives shaped their ideas as profoundly as their intellectual and cultural heritage. He focuses especially on how Romantic concepts of the self, as well as aesthetic and moral considerations—all tempered by personal relationships—altered scientific representations of nature. Although historians have long considered Romanticism at best a minor tributary to scientific thought, Richards moves it to the center of the main currents of nineteenth-century biology, culminating in the conception of nature that underlies Darwin's evolutionary theory. Uniting the personal and poetic aspects of philosophy and science in a way that the German Romantics themselves would have honored, The Romantic Conception of Life alters how we look at Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology.

How long is The Romantic Conception of Life?

The Romantic Conception of Life by Robert J. Richards is 626 pages long, and a total of 160,256 words.

This makes it 211% the length of the average book. It also has 196% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Romantic Conception of Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 35 minutes to read The Romantic Conception of Life aloud.

What Reading Level is The Romantic Conception of Life?

The Romantic Conception of Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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