Experimenting at the boundaries of life : organic vitality in Germany around 1800 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steigerwald, Joan (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Series:	Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Subjects:	Life sciences > Germany > History > 18th century. Life sciences > Germany > History > 19th century. Philosophy and the life sciences > Germany > History. Biology > Philosophy > History. Vitalism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Organic vitality in the late eighteenth century : Lebenskräfte and experimental reasoning
Kant's Critique of the power of judgment : organisms as reciprocally means and ends of themselves
Blurring the boundaries of life : organic vitality and instruments of inquiry in the 1790s
Jena connections : a science of knowledge, romantic aesthetics, and languages of nature
Schelling's philosophy of life : boundary concepts and the natural history of the world soul
The science of biology : organic vitality and the boundaries of life
Conclusion: Afterlife.