Hans Christian Ørsted And The Romantic Legacy In Science [electronic resource] : Ideas, Disciplines, Practices / edited by Robert Michael Brain, Robert S. Cohen, Ole Knudsen.

The Way From Nature To God -- The Other Side Of Ørsted: Civil Obedience -- The Making Of A Danish Kantian: Science And The New Civil Society -- Phrenology And Danish Romanticism -- Natural Ends And The End Of Nature -- The Influence Of Kant's Philosophy On The Young H. C. Ørsted -- Ørsted's Concept Of Force And Theory Of Music -- Kant-Naturphilosophie-Electromagnetism -- Steffens, Ørsted, And The Chemical Construction Of The Earth -- The Culture Of Science And Experiments In Jena Around 1800 -- The Romantic Experiment As Fragment -- Ørsted And The Rational Unconscious -- Romanticism And Resistance: Humboldt And "German" Natural Philosophy In Napoleonic France -- Between Enlightenment And Romanticism: The Case Of Dr. Thomas Beddoes -- Ørsted's Presentation Of Others'-And His Own-Work -- Ørsted, Ritter, And Magnetochemistry -- Ørsted's Work On The Compressibility Of Liquids And Gases, And His Dynamic Theory Of Matter -- Hans Christian Ørsted's Spiritual Interpretation Of Natural Science -- The Spiritual In The Material.

The relations between science and philosophy in the early nineteenth century remain one of the most misunderstood topics in modern European intellectual history. By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian Ørsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism. They show how Ørsted, an intrepid traveller and cosmopolitan from the periphery of enlightened Europe, mediated between the great scientists of Germany, France, and Britain and profoundly shaped post-kantian philosophy and the emerging new energy physics of the nineteenth-century.