Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment

by Peter Hanns Reill

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520241355
• ISBN13: 9780520241350
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"