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Life embodied : the promise of vital force in Spanish modernity /
"Vital force, or the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature, has always proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity. Yet, with the Scientific Revolution of the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
76. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The heart of the matter : remapping the body economy in Juan de Cabriada's Philosophical medico-chemical letter
- Cartesianism and its discontents : Marcelino Boix y Moliner, Martín Martínez, and Diego de Torres Villarroel
- Vitalizing the medical revolution in Spain; or, How Sebastián Miguel Guerrero Herreros and Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga theorized life, death, and everything in between
- The subjective self and the sublimity of nature's vital force in Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
- Pursuing the modern at the end of an age : positivist materialism and the Krausist ideal in Pedro Mata y Fontanet and Julián Sanz del Río
- Degeneration, regeneration, corporealization : what the lived body can do according to Miguel de Unamuno, Pío Baroja, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna.