03323nam 2200661Ia 450 991045033690332120210618031512.097866123574970-520-93100-91-282-35749-21-59875-547-110.1525/9780520931008(CKB)1000000000030749(EBL)231931(OCoLC)475938420(SSID)ssj0000268154(PQKBManifestationID)11240924(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268154(PQKBWorkID)10213577(PQKB)10132535(MiAaPQ)EBC231931(OCoLC)60312469(MdBmJHUP)muse30630(DE-B1597)518738(DE-B1597)9780520931008(Au-PeEL)EBL231931(CaPaEBR)ebr10079954(CaONFJC)MIL235749(EXLCZ)99100000000003074920040930d2005 ub 0engurnn#nnn|u||utxtccrVitalizing nature in the Enlightenment[electronic resource] /Peter Hanns ReillBerkeley University of California Pressc20051 online resource (402 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24135-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity --I. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Histoire naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism --2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment --3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" --4. The Metamorphoses of Change --5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThis far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused many of them to reject the prevailing doctrine of mechanism and turn to a vitalistic model to account for phenomena in natural history, the life sciences, and chemistry. As he traces the ramifications of this new way of thinking through time and across disciplines, Reill provocatively complicates our understanding of the way key Enlightenment thinkers viewed nature. His sophisticated analysis ultimately questions postmodern narratives that have assumed a monolithic Enlightenment-characterized by the dominance of instrumental reason-that has led to many of the disasters of modern life.VitalismScienceHistory18th centuryElectronic books.Vitalism.ScienceHistory509/.4/09033TB 2360rvkReill Peter Hanns220121MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450336903321Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment2464439UNINA