Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism

by Bernhard Kuhn (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $151.86

  Examining the autobiographies and scientific writings of Rousseau, Goethe, and Thoreau as representative of their ages, this book challenges the entrenched thesis of the 'two cultures'. It reveals the scientific character of autobiographical writing while demonstrating the autobiographical nature of natural science.