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Reenchanted science holism in German culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler /
By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The ""Human Machine"" and the Call to ""Wholeness
- The Original Goethean Vision of ""Wholeness
- A Fractured Nation and the Mechanists' Quest for Unity in Nature
- Necessary Ways of Knowing and the Mechanization of Mind and Brain
- Wholeness Betrayed: Political Unification and the Rise of the ""Machine"" Society
- The Place of ""Wholeness"" in the Fin de Siecle Upheavals
- World War I and Its Aftermath: Science as Cultural Critique
- Chapter Two: Biology against Democracy and the ""Gorilla-Machine
- On the Way to a Biology of Subjects
- Scientists in Their Soap Bubbles: Uexktill 's Kantian Challenge to Science
- Revitalizing Life: Umweltlehre and the Vitalist-Mechanist Controversy
- The Shocks of World War I and Weimar
- Toward a ""Biology of the State
- Uexkiill on the ""Jewish Question
- The Fight against the ""Gorilla-Machine
- Uexkiill's Relationship to National Socialism
- Chapter Three: World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System
- Shock, Recovery, and the Localization of Time in the Brain
- World War I: Degeneration and Renewal
- The Biology of Instincts and the Evolutionary Arrow
- The ""World of Orientation"" versus the ""World of Feeling
- Morality in the Cells: The ""Syneidesis "" or Biological Conscience
- An Answer to ""Ignorabimus"": Monakow's Neurobiology of Scientific Knowledge
- Chapter Four: ""A Peacefully Blossoming Tree"": The Rational Enchantment of Gestalt Psychology
- Gestalt versus Chaos: The Voice of Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Gestalt versus Chaos: The Voice of Christian von Ehrenfels
- Max Wertheimer: Claiming Gestaltfor Science and Rational Enchantment
- The Mind's Laws of ""Immanent Structuralism
- A Peacefully Blossoming Tree: Wertheimer's Vision for Weimar
- Attacks on the Berlin Gestalt Vision
- The Rise of National Socialism and Wertheimer's Emigration to America
- Wolfgang Kohler's Case to Americans for the Reality of Values in a World of Facts
- Wertheimer's ""Gestalt Logic"" as an Antidote to Demagoguery
- Chapter Five: The Self-Actualizing Brain and the Biology of Existential Choice
- The Imperative of Regeneration in the Clinic and Society
- Insights from Brain-Damaged Soldiers: Actualization and Wholeness
- Changing Theoretical Orientations: From Reflex Theory to Gestalt
- Reason, Courage, and the Making of a Weimar Hero
- The Call for a Holistic Clinical Practice
- The Goethean ""Schau"": Toward a Holistic Epistemology
- Goldstein's Persecution and the Biology of Fascism
- Goldstein in America: The ""Wholeness"" in the Human Encounter
- The Lessons of Goethe in the Post-Hiroshima Age
- Chapter Six: Life Science, Nazi Wholeness, and the ""Machine"" in Germany's Midst
- Gestalt, Goethe, and the Fiihrerprinzip