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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
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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| Colección: | UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35862907*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: History as a Life Form; 1 Johann Christoph Gatterer and History as Science; 2 An Epicurean Democracy in Language: The volte face in Johann David Michaelis's Early Career; 3 Reill's Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment and German Naturphilosophie; Part Two: Vitalism in Political and Cultural Translation; 4 "That Infinite Variety of Human Forms": Modern Identity and Portraiture in Enlightenment England; 5 Was Marat a Vitalist?; 6 The Vital Organism in the Thought of Humboldt and Mill; Part Three: Esotericism and the Enlightenment7 Constructs of Life Forms in Lavater's Physiognomy; 8 The Preaching Philosopher: Andreas Weber (1718-81) between Wolffian Philosophy and Heterodox Theology; 9 Between Myth and Archive, Alchemy and Science in Eighteenth-Century Naples: The Cabinet of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of San Severo; 10 The Liberal Mysticism of Madame de Staël.
