04339nam 2201069Ia 450 991081457310332120240410074556.097866123574970-520-93100-91-282-35749-21-59875-547-110.1525/9780520931008(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 /Peter Hanns Reill1st ed.Berkeley 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 century18th century.animism.charles louis dumas.chemistry.counter enlightenment.cuvier.early modern enlightenment.enlightenment.epigenesis.generation.history of science.history.life force.life science.mechanism.modernity.natural history.natural philosophy.natural world.nature.naturphilosophie.philosophy.physiology.reason.relationship with nature.religion and science.reproduction.romanticism.science.scientific disciplines.spark of life.stahlian chemistry.vitalism.william cullen.Vitalism.ScienceHistory509/.4/09033TB 2360rvkReill Peter Hanns220121MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814573103321Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment4045789UNINA