Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ

Friday, November 11, 2016 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Leif Weatherby

New York University

Van Pelt 223 (Meyerson Conference Room)

This FridayNov. 113:00-5:00 PM in Van Pelt 223 (Meyerson Conference Room) please join us for a lecture, discussion and reception around the publication of Penn Comparative Literature graduate Leif Weatherby's book, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ (Fordham University Press, 2016):

 

Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs - a metaphysics meant to theorize, and ultimately alter, the structure of a politically and scientifically destabilized world.

 

Leif Weatherby is assistant professor of German at New York University and author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx. He is currently working on a manuscript about a strange encounter between cybernetics and German Idealism.

 

We will have refreshments as well as the book available for purchase. We look forward to seeing you there!