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Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment / / Peter Hanns Reill



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Autore: Reill Peter Hanns Visualizza persona
Titolo: Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment / / Peter Hanns Reill Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
Disciplina: 509/.4/09033
Soggetto topico: Vitalism
Science - History - 18th century
Classificazione: TB 2360
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
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ISBN: 9786612357497
0-520-93100-9
1-282-35749-2
1-59875-547-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814573103321
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