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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zammito, John H., 1948- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press [2018]
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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.