ABSTRACT The article considers Goethe’s engagement with the doctrines of Franz Joseph Gall, the founder of phrenology. Using the sketch of their first face-to-face meeting in the Tag- und Jahreshefte of 1805 as a guide, it argues that Goethe views phrenology through the lens of his scientific methodology and reshapes it accordingly, when needed. In particular, he seeks to render Gall’s account of the skull as the brain’s imprint into a phenomenon worthy of extensive observation and description but still open to interpretation. Moreover, Goethe immediately relates Gall’s anatomical structuring of the brain to the concept of metamorphosis, thus paving the way to integrating organology into his morphology. On occasion, Goethe also succumbs to the allure of the skull that craniology has created, such as when he agrees to give material self-evidence in the form of a face mask.

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作为对象与主体之间调解者的头骨：加勒的物相学和歌德的科学方法

摘要这篇文章考虑了歌德对相象学创始人弗朗兹·约瑟夫·加尔（Franz Joseph Gall）的教义的参与。以他们在1805年的塔贡德·贾里希夫特（Tag-und Jahreshefte）的第一次面对面会议的草图为指导，它认为歌德通过其科学方法论的观点看待相象学，并在需要时相应地对其进行了重塑。特别是，他试图将加尔（Gall）对头骨的描述作为大脑的烙印，成为一种值得广泛观察和描述，但仍需解释的现象。此外，歌德立即将加尔的大脑解剖结构与变态概念联系起来，从而为将器官学整合到他的形态学上铺平了道路。有时候，歌德也屈从于颅骨学所创造的头骨的魅力，