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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
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DEDICATION
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
PART I: CULTURAL IMPACT
1 Indiana Reads Alexander von Humboldt
2 Alexander von Humboldt: Between Enlightenment Vitalism and Romantic Naturphilosophie
3 Alexander von Humboldt and Peter Schlemihl: The Image of the Scientific Explorer in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature
4 The Meeting of Two Alexanders: Causes and Consequences of Humboldt's and Pushkin's Mutual Admiration
PART II: ON NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
5 Alexander von Humboldt's Environmental Holism

6 Alexander von Humboldt's Lonely Parrot in Views of Nature
7 Re-Rivering New Spain: Transatlantic Politics of Knowledge and Water in Alexander von Humboldt
PART III: HUMBOLDT FROM ART TO SCIENCE AND SCIENCE AS ART
8 Beseelte Natur: Alexander von Humboldt and Data-Driven Paradigm Segues
9 Alexander von Humboldt beyond Planet Earth: Exploring the Infinite and Unreachable in Kosmos
10 Art and Aesthetics in Alexander von Humboldt: The Subterranean Tree and Other Images
Biographies of Contributors
Index