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UNINA9910790791303321 |
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Autore |
Finkelstein Gabriel Ward |
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Titolo |
Emil du Bois-Reymond : neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany / / Gabriel Finkelstein |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
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0-262-31485-1 |
0-262-31484-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
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Neurosciences - Philosophy - History - 19th century |
Physiology, Experimental - History - 19th century |
Physiologists - Germany |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Beginnings; 1 Childhood; 2 Youth; 3 Apprenticeship; II Experiments; 4 Science; 5 Revolution; 6 Paris; III Life; 7 Love; 8 Marriage and Career; 9 Public and Private; IV Fame; 10 Politics and History; 11 Goethe and Darwin; 12 Limits; Notes; Index |
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A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818-1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyond for his groundbreaking research in neuroscience and his provocative addresses on politics and culture. This biography by Gabriel Finkelstein draws on personal papers, published writings, and contemporary responses to tell the story of a major scientific figure. Du Bois-Reymond's discovery of the electrical transmission of nerve signals, his innovations in laboratory instrumentation, and his reductionist methodology all helped lay the foundations of modern neuroscience.In addition to describing the pioneering experiments that earned du Bois-Reymond a seat in the Prussian Academy of Sciences and a |
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professorship at the University of Berlin, Finkelstein recounts du Bois-Reymond's family origins, private life, public service, and lasting influence. Du Bois-Reymond's public lectures made him a celebrity. In talks that touched on science, philosophy, history, and literature, he introduced Darwin to German students (triggering two days of debate in the Prussian parliament); asked, on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War, whether France had forfeited its right to exist; and proclaimed the mystery of consciousness, heralding the age of doubt. The first modern biography of du Bois-Reymond in any language, this book recovers an important chapter in the history of science, the history of ideas, and the history of Germany. |
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UNINA9910300007403321 |
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Asia and the Historical Imagination / / edited by Jane Yeang Chui Wong |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Oriental literature |
Literature |
Civilization - History |
Asian Literature |
World Literature |
Cultural History |
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Introduction -- Can One Speak of the September 30th Movement? The Power of Silence in Indonesian Literature -- Cultural Encounters and Imagining Multi-cultural Identities in Two Taiwanese Historical Novels -- Fate or State: The Double Life of a Composite Chinese Spy in A Map |
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of Betrayal -- Contesting Chineseness in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue -- Female Body as the Site of Historical Controversy: Ghostly Reappearance in South Korean Historical Fiction -- Cosmopolitan Retellings and the Idea of the Local: The Case of Salman Rushdie's Shame -- Connections, Contact, and Community in the Southeast Asian Past: Teaching Transnational History through Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace -- "Until it lives in our hands and in our eyes, and it's ours": Rewriting Historical Fiction and The Hungry Tide -- Coda. |
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This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers how imagined pasts converge and diverge in developed and developing nations, and examines the limitations of representation at a time when theories of world literature are shaping the way we interpret global histories and cultures. The collection calls attention to the importance of acknowledging local tensions-both within the historical and cultural make-up of a country, and within the Asian continent-in the interpretation of historical fiction. It emphasizes a broad-spectrum view that privileges the shared historical experiences of a group of countries in close proximity, and it also responds to the paradigm shift in Asian Studies. Discussing how local conditions shape and create expectations of how we read historical fiction and working with the theme of fictionality and locality, the volume provides an alternative framework for the study of world literature. |
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