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The Will To Create: Goethe'S Philosophy Of Nature ReviewI thought long and hard about whether to buy this book but having read it I made the right choice. This book is one of the very best studies of German poet/dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's work on science. Specifically, regarding his elusive philosophy of nature which is implicit in his works but never really laid out explicitly.
Instead of analysing Goethe's more well known ideas such as the "Archetype" she concentrates on the less well studied aspects of 1. Polarity, 2. Intensification, 3. Compensation and finally 4. Competition, Reproduction and Gender. Although much has been written on Polarity and to some degree on intensification almost nothing has been done on Compensation and Competition. Most of these former works only explored Goethe's philsophy of nature briefly, Tantillo has looked at it in some depth. Her book is rare for the sense of clarity she has brought to studies on Goethe. Most studies are, to say the least, vague in this regard and Tantillo has brought out why these studies did so basing her conclusions on the original works of Goethe as well as the possible reasons chosen by some authors.
In addition Tantillo clarifies the issue of the Archetypal organism which, before her work, was believed to be akin to a Platonic form, fixed and unchanging. However, she has brought to the fore statements by Goethe which allude to the idea of the archetype as a helpful concept on the path to a deeper understanding of organisms.
Tantillo studies not only Goethe's scientific texts but his literature as well and finds corresponding aspects in both, especially Goethe's novel "Elective Affinities" which portrays certain characters in a way related to his scientific work. She notes how Goethe believed in a creative nature not based on static laws but rather a nature always willing to express itself anew in some way beyond what already exists; in some sense breaking natural laws. remembering that "natural laws" are those aspects of the study of nature which have been supposed fixed and unchanging by scientists. She makes the point that Goethe knew about the fact that a human being brings with them certain preformed ideas which colour his/her reception of the new. Principally, the idea that nature is mechanical which therefore does not allow views outside of it.
Tantillo allows one to see that Goethe was a truly radical thinker not just of his own time but ours as well, going way beyond even radically new sciences such as Chaos theory. My only complaints are that she does not study aspects of Goethe's science such as the archetype in more detail and does not consider how to develop Goethe's insights further.The Will To Create: Goethe'S Philosophy Of Nature Overview

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