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

• This comprehensive account of vitalism and the German philosophy of nature in the eighteenth century proposes an innovative thesis. The author restates the theories formulated by the Göttingen School, but also shows that some of its central tenets are drawn directly from the Naturphilosophie developed in Jena. In this sense the Biologie consists substantially of a compilation of theories elaborated in the previous decades, yet Treviranus rearranges them in a unitary framework and interprets them with a peculiar emphasis on the interaction between organism and environment. On the basis of this new approach he was the first naturalist in the German speaking world to sketch the outline of a theory concerned with the historical transformation of living forms. This overall account and its innovative thesis will be of interest to scholars of classical German philosophy, particularly those researching the philosophy of nature and the history and philosophy of biology. 

Ämnesord

Vitalism  (sao)

Teleologi  (sao)

Naturuppfattning  -- historia (sao)

Naturfilosofi  -- historia (sao)

Biologi  -- historia (sao)

Biologi  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Vitalism  (LCSH)

Philosophy of nature - History  (LCSH)

Teleology  (LCSH)

Tyskland  (sao)

1700-talet  (sao)

Klassifikation

100 (DDC)

D (kssb/8 (machine generated))