LEADER 03323nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910450336903321 005 20210618031512.0 010 $a9786612357497 010 $a0-520-93100-9 010 $a1-282-35749-2 010 $a1-59875-547-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520931008 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030749 035 $a(EBL)231931 035 $a(OCoLC)475938420 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11240924 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10213577 035 $a(PQKB)10132535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC231931 035 $a(OCoLC)60312469 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30630 035 $a(DE-B1597)518738 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520931008 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL231931 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10079954 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235749 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030749 100 $a20040930d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#nnn|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVitalizing nature in the Enlightenment$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Hanns Reill 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (402 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-24135-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPrologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity --$tI. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Histoire naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism --$t2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment --$t3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" --$t4. The Metamorphoses of Change --$t5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aVitalism 606 $aScience$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aVitalism. 615 0$aScience$xHistory 676 $a509/.4/09033 686 $aTB 2360$2rvk 700 $aReill$b Peter Hanns$0220121 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450336903321 996 $aVitalizing nature in the Enlightenment$92464439 997 $aUNINA