num_pages: 256
description: "Krell writes here with a brilliance of style that few other philosophers can match." —John Sallis Although the Romantic Age is usually thought of as idealizing nature as the source of birth, life, and creativity, David Farrell Krell focuses on the preoccupation of three key German Romantic thinkers—Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel—with nature’s destructive powers—contagion, disease, and death.
language: English
title: Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism
titlecomplete: Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (Studies in Continental Thought)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Indiana University Press