Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800 / Joan Steigerwald.
"Attempts to distinguish a science of life at the turn of the nineteenth century faced a number of challenges. A central difficulty was clearly demarcating the living from the nonliving experimentally and conceptually. The more closely the boundaries between organic and inorganic phenomena were...
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[2019]
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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.