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The book explores the concept of Romantic Organology, a blend of scientific inquiry and philosophical speculation developed by German Romantics. It examines how this discourse aimed to address a politically and scientifically unstable world by proposing a metaphysical framework intended to transform societal structures. Through this lens, the author reconstructs the interplay between biological function and speculative thought, highlighting the significance of these ideas in understanding the complexities of the Romantic era.

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world, and offered a metaphysics meant to alter the structure of that world.