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Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment /
"This study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : the Humboldt brothers confront nature's sublimity
- 1. Storming "the temple of error" : Buffon, the Historie Naturelle, and the midcentury origins of Enlightenment vitalism
- 2. Learning to "read the book of nature" : vitalizing chemistry in the late Enlightenment
- 3. "Within the circle of organized life"
- 4. The metamorphoses of change
- 5. From Enlightenment vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie
- Epilogue : from the foot of Chimborazo to the flatlands of Europe.