Vital forces, teleology and organization : philosophy of nature and the rise of biology in Germany /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer
c2018.
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| Series: | History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ;
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