{"product_id":"sweet-science-romantic-materialism-and-the-new-logics-of-life-9780226458441","title":"Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Amanda Jo Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In \u003ci\u003eSweet Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Goldstein puts apparently literary projects, such as William Blake's poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe's journals \u003ci\u003eOn Morphology\u003c\/i\u003e, and Percy Shelley's \"poetry of life,\" back into conversation with the openly poetic life sciences of Erasmus Darwin, J. G. Herder, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Such poetic sciences, Goldstein argues, share in reviving Lucretius's \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura\u003c\/i\u003e to advance a view of biological life as neither self-organized nor autonomous, but rather dependent on the collaborative and symbolic processes that give it viable and recognizable form. They summon \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura \u003c\/i\u003efor a logic of life resistant to the vitalist stress on self-authorizing power and to make a monumental case for poetry's role in the perception and communication of empirical realities. The first dedicated study of this mortal and materialist dimension of Romantic biopoetics, \u003ci\u003eSweet Science\u003c\/i\u003e opens a through-line between Enlightenment materialisms of nature and Marx's coming historical materialism.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47780406919319,"sku":"9780226458441","price":11923.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226458441.webp?v=1778045066","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sweet-science-romantic-materialism-and-the-new-logics-of-life-9780226458441","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}