Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler

by Anne Harrington

Book Overview

By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the "machine" had wrought? Some contemporary scientists thought it could. These years saw the spread of a new, "holistic" science designed to nourish the heart as well as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691050503
• ISBN13: 9780691050508
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"