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Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

Bodies, Culture, Politics
BuchGebunden
251 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am31.01.20122012
This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.mehr
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KlappentextThis book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.
ZusammenfassungDevelops recent work on the intersections between Romantic literary culture and Romantic scienceFirst study of eighteenth-century vitalism (most accounts focus on later periods/writing)Maps the effects of vitalist science in larger literary, cultural or political contextsDiscusses key figures from eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, David Hume, Mary Shelley and Mary-Ann Radcliffe
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-230-27618-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum31.01.2012
Auflage2012
ReihePalgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Seiten251 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht454 g
IllustrationenVIII, 251 p.
Artikel-Nr.17417549

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements Introduction: Eighteenth Century Vitalism Forms of Enlightenment: Embodied Beings in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Generating Sympathy: Sensibility, Animation, and Vitality in Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft Labouring Bodies in Political Economy: Labour, Vitalist Physiology and the Body Politic Enlightenment Legacies and Cultural Radicalism: Physiology and Politics in the 1790s Animated Nature: Erasmus Darwin and the Poetry and Politics of Vital Matter, 1789-1803 Animation and Vitality in Women's Writing of the 1790s Conclusion: Eighteenth-century Vitalism, Romantic Organicism, Literature and the Disciplines Bibliography Indexmehr