| 研究実績の概要 |
In the final year, the project resulted in research articles from each project member and a book: Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists (Springer Nature, 2025). Chapters include research on nineteenth theories of matter, the theories of the heart, metaphysics of powers, race theory, evolution of species, the definition of life, and relations of biology to literature, religion, and culture.
The finished project deepens our understanding of romantic idealism, focusing on the important place of matter, force, life, and the body in a philosophical milieu long supposed to be inattentive to such concerns. Through a compelling series of case studies, the book develops the notion of a “dynamic idealism” responsive not only to the concept of life but also to the claims of the empirical sciences. This approach enriches our sense of idealism’s historical situation, and it suggests that familiar oppositions between idealist metaphysics and materialist science need to be revised, if not abandoned. A notable strength of the volume is the range of thinkers engaged, from romantics such as Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Steffens, Schelling, and Schopenhauer; to significant precursors including Boehme, Cudworth, and Shaftesbury; to modern and contemporary philosophers such as Whitehead, Blanchot, Cavarero, and Malabou. Its most original gesture, however, is to identify Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a central figure in the tradition of dynamic idealism.
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