Title Life forms in the thinking of the long eighteenth century / edited by Keith Michael Baker and Jenna M. Gibbs

Published [Toronto, Ontario] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps Series UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 24 UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 24. Contents Part One : History as a Life Form. 1. Johann Christoph Gatterer and history as science / Martin Gierl -- 2. An Epicurean democracy in language : the volte face in Johann David Michaelis's early career / Avi Lifschitz -- 3. Reill's Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment and German Naturphilosophie / John Zammito -- Part Two : Vitalism in Political and Cultural Translation -- 4. "That infinite variety of human forms" : modern identity and portraiture in Enlightenment England / Frederic Ogee -- 5. Was Marat a vitalist? / Keith Michael Baker -- 6. The vital organism in the thought of Humboldt and Mill / Kris Pangburn -- Part Three : Esotericism and the Enlightenment. 7. Constructs of life forms in Lavater's Physiognomy / Annette Graczyk -- 8. The preaching philosopher : Andreas Weber (1718-81) between Wolffian philosophy and heterodox theology / Renko Geffarth -- 9. Between myth and archive, alchemy and science in eighteenth-century Naples : The cabinet of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of San Severo / Clorinda Donato -- 10. The liberal mysticism of Madame de Staël / Helena Rosenblatt Summary "For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic "Enlightenment project." Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a broader and more varied understanding of eighteenth-century conceptions of nature. Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world that responds to Reill's work. The ten essays included in the collection analyse the place of historicism, vitalism, and esotericism in the eighteenth century--three strands of thought rarely connected, but all of which are central to Reill's innovative work. Working across national and regional boundaries, they engage not only French and English but also Italian, Swiss, and German writers."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Vitalism. Science -- History -- 18th century Enlightenment. Vitalism Enlightenment (18th-century western movement) SCIENCE -- History. Enlightenment Science Vitalism Wissenschaft Vitalismus Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Baker, Keith Michael, author, editor. Gibbs, Jenna M., 1961- editor. ISBN 9781442630253 1442630256

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