Vital forces, teleology and organization : philosophy of nature and the rise of biology in Germany /

• Main Author: Gambarotto, Andrea (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer c2018.
• Series: History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ; 21.
• Subjects: Βιολογία > Φιλοσοφία; Φιλοσοφία της φύσης

This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of "vital force," starting from the mid-eighteenth through the early nineteenth ce...