Mary Gregory

Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135915834
• Artikelnr.: 42188271

Autorenporträt

Mary Gregory is a scholar of the French Enlightenment. For the past ten years she has been researching Diderot's views regarding the metamorphosis of species in four of his texts, namely, the Pensées philosophiques (1746), the Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient (1749), the Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature (1753), and the trilogy, the Entretien entre d'Alembert et Diderot (1769), the Rêve de d'Alembert (1769), and the Suite de l'Entretien (1769).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One Chaos, Flux, Time, and Probability
Chapter Two Embryology, Epigenesis, and the Metamorphosis of Species
Chapter Three Spontaneous Generation
Chapter Four The Chain of Beings
Chapter Five The Mutability of Species
Chapter Six The Ascent of Consciousness
Conclusion