Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century

Herausgeber: Baker, Keith; Gibbs, Jenna

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Produktbeschreibung

Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442630246
• ISBN-10: 1442630248
• Artikelnr.: 43954208

Autorenporträt

Edited by Keith Michael Baker and Jenna M. Gibbs

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: History as a Life Form
1. Martin Gierl, “Johann Christoph Gatterer and History as Science”
2. Avi Lifshitz, “An Epicurean Democracy in Language: The volte face in
Johann David Michaelis’s Early Career”
3. John Zammito, “From Vital Materialism to Naturphilosophie: The Question
of Historical Continuity”
Part II: Translations of Vitalism
4. Keith Baker, “Was Marat a Vitalist?”
5. Frédéric Ogée, “‘That infinite variety of human forms’: The New
Epistemology, Modern Identity, and the English”
6. Kris Pangburn, “Vitalist Natural Philosophy in the Political Thought of
John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt”
Part III: Esotericism and Enlightenment
7. Annette Graczyk, “Constructions of Life Forms in Lavater’s Physiognomy”
8. Renko Geffarth, “The Preaching Philosopher: Andreas Weber (1718-1781):
Between Wolffian Philosophy and Heterodox Theology”
9. Clorinda Donato, “Esoteric Reason and Occult Science: Seamless Pursuits
in the Work and Networks of Raimondo di Sangro, the Prince of San Severo”
10. Helena Rosenblatt, “The Liberal Mysticism of Madame de Staél”