Thiscollection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewingwholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construction.Wholeness and its concomitant sense of harmony, rather than a natural given, isa construct that was assembled and disassembled, theorized and criticized, bydiverse authors and artists in a wide variety of disciplines andsocio-historical contexts, and instrumentalized for diverse purposes. Theplurality of these constructions - that Goethe's Urpflanze, for example, is not synonymous with Friedrich Schlegel'suniversal progressive poetry - is but one manifestation of how "assembly"strives but fails to be absolute. The "other" of assembly referenced in the title suggests two divergent but inseparable tendencies: firstly, how aconstruction can take on the appearance of a natural given; and secondly, howassemblages of wholeness harbor within themselves their own principle ofdisarticulation. These two tendencies underlie the "inexhaustible" character ofRomantic "gatherings". As a construction passes itself off as nature, thenatural fails to account for itself as a whole. The scope of this volumeencompasses the establishment, mapping, and interrogation of assembly and itsother in German Romanticism through interdisciplinary studies on literature,aesthetics, philosophy, drama, music, synaesthesia, mathematics, science, andexploration.

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