The gestation of German biology : philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling /

The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural history that preceded it, marking the beginnings...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zammito, John H., 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Temas:
Biology > Study and teaching > Germany.
Physiology > Study and teaching > Germany.
Biologie > Étude et enseignement > Allemagne.
Physiologie > Étude et enseignement > Allemagne.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
Biology > Study and teaching.
Physiology > Study and teaching.
Germany.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The gestation of German biology
  • Animism and organism: G.E. Stahl and the Halle medical faculty
  • Making life science Newtonian: Albrecht von Haller's self-fashioning as natural scientist
  • Albrecht von Haller as arbiter of German medicine: Göttingen and Bern (1736-1777)
  • French vital materialism
  • Taking up the French challenge: the German response
  • From natural history to history of nature: from Buffon to Kant and Herder (and Blumenbach)
  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the life sciences in Germany: his rise to eminence from the 1770s
  • Blumenbach, Kant, and the "daring adventure" of an "archaeology of nature"
  • Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer and "an entirely new epoch of natural history"
  • Polarität und Steigerung: the self-organization of nature and the actualization of life
  • Naturphilosophie and physiology.

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