Maurizio Esposito

Romantic Biology, 1890-1945

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Esposito presents a historiography of organicist and holistic thought through an examination of the work of leading biologists from Britain and America. He shows how this work relates to earlier Romantic tradition and sets it within the wider context of the history and philosophy of the life sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781138662285
• ISBN-10: 1138662283
• Artikelnr.: 45328072

Autorenporträt

Maurizio Esposito

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Old and New Organicisms
Chapter 2 Romantic Biology: Establishing Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 3 The British Version: J. S. Haldane, D'arcy Thompson and the Organism as a Whole
Chapter 4 The New Generation: A Failed Organismal Revolution
Chapter 5 The American Version: Chicago and Beyond
Chapter 6 Romantic Biology from California's Shores: W. E. Ritter, C. M. Child and the Scripps Marine Association
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Whatever Happened to Organismal Biologies?