Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century

Published by University of Toronto Press 2016

Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited by: Keith Baker and Jenna Gibbs

In the series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442630253

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About this book

Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world.

Author / Editor information

Baker Keith :

Keith Michael Baker is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities and a professor in the Department of History at Stanford University.
Gibbs Jenna :

Jenna M. Gibbs is an associate professor in the Department of History at Florida International University.

Reviews

J.D. Martin:

‘The contributors are erudite, argue effectively for a more nuanced and multi-dimensional approach to Enlightenment thinking, and will be of considerable interest to scholars of that era.’

Phillip Sloan, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame:

“Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is an interesting collection of papers that provide many new insights into the eighteenth century.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. History as a Life Form
1. Johann Christoph Gatterer and History as Science Martin Gierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. An Epicurean Democracy in Language: The volte face in Johann David Michaeli’s Early Career Avi Lifschitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Reill’s Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment and German Naturphilosophie John Zammito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Part Two. Vitalism in Political and Cultural Translation
4. „That Infinite Variety of Human Forms“: Modern Identity and Portraiture in Enlightenment England Frédéric Ogée Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. Was Marat a Vitalist? Keith Michael Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6. The Vital Organism in the Thought of Humboldt and Mill Kris Pangburn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part Three. Esotericism and the Enlightenment
7. Constructs of Life Forms in Lavater’s Physiognomy Annette Graczyk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8. The Preaching Philosopher: Andreas Weber (1718–81) between Wolffian Philosophy and Heterodox Theology Renko Geffarth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. Between Myth and Archive, Alchemy and Science in Eighteenth-Century Naples: The Cabinet of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of San Severo Clorinda Donato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
10. The Liberal Mysticism of Madame de Staël Helena Rosenblatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
- Other: 17 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: June 13, 2016
ISBN: 9781442630253