Contents

1. Introduction 

2. Goethe’s Italian Discoveries as a Natural Scientist (The Scientist in the Underworld) 

3. Goethean Intuitions 

4. The Metamorphosis of the Scientist 

5. Methodological Issues Regarding the experimentum crucis 

6. Goethe and Steiner as Pioneers of Emergence 

7. Seeing Ideas: Goethe's Science and Modernist Aesthetics

8. The Music of the Organism: Uexküll, Zuckerkandl, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze as Goethean Ecologists in Search of a New Paradigm 

9. Readings in the Text of Nature: Three Contemporary Goetheans 

10. Goethean Method in the Work of Jochen Bockemühl 

11. Goethe’s Epistemology of the South 

12. Bibliographic Essay: On Some Important Works on Goethe’s Scientific Studies That Have Appeared Since 1990