Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism
(Studies in Continental Thought)
by David F. Krell
# Paperback: 243 pages
# Publisher: Indiana University Press (April 1998)
Among all poisons, the soul is the most potent.
—NOVALIS, DAS ALLGEMEINE BROUILLON, 2: 706
Every substance can become a poison. For only through
the activity of an organism does a substance become poisonous.
—SCHELL1NG, ERSTER ENTWURF, 73
The living is something fixed and determined in-and-for-itself
Whatever it touches chemically on the outside is immediately
transformed by this contact. . .. The living immediately poisons
this other, transforms it, as spirit does when it intuits something,
transforming it and making it its own. For that something
is its representation.
—HEGEL, ENZYKLOPÄDIE, 9:402-403
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