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Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment

This far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused many of them to reject the prevailing doctrine of mechanism and turn to a vitalistic model to account for phenomena in natural history, the life sciences, and chemistry. As he traces the ramifications of this new way of thinking through time and across disciplines, Reill provocatively complicates our understanding of the way key Enlightenment thinkers viewed nature. His sophisticated analysis ultimately questions postmodern narratives that have assumed a monolithic Enlightenment--characterized by the dominance of instrumental reason--that has led to many of the disasters of modern life.

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Title of ebook: Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780520931008
parent-ISBN: 9780520241350
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 15411 kb
Pages: 398
Published: 06-2005
Released online for download: 06-06-2005
Author of eBook: Reill, Peter Hanns

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