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Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century /
"For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic "Enlightenment project." Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a broader and more varied understa...
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[Toronto, Ontario] :
Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One : History as a Life Form. 1. Johann Christoph Gatterer and history as science / Martin Gierl
- 2. An Epicurean democracy in language : the volte face in Johann David Michaelis's early career / Avi Lifschitz
- 3. Reill's Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment and German Naturphilosophie / John Zammito
- Part Two : Vitalism in Political and Cultural Translation
- 4. "That infinite variety of human forms" : modern identity and portraiture in Enlightenment England / Frederic Ogee
- 5. Was Marat a vitalist? / Keith Michael Baker
- 6. The vital organism in the thought of Humboldt and Mill / Kris Pangburn
- Part Three : Esotericism and the Enlightenment. 7. Constructs of life forms in Lavater's Physiognomy / Annette Graczyk
- 8. The preaching philosopher : Andreas Weber (1718-81) between Wolffian philosophy and heterodox theology / Renko Geffarth
- 9. Between myth and archive, alchemy and science in eighteenth-century Naples : The cabinet of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of San Severo / Clorinda Donato
- 10. The liberal mysticism of Madame de Staël / Helena Rosenblatt.