Reenchanted Science : : Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler / / Anne Harrington.
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...
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Reenchanted Science : |b Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler / |c Anne Harrington. |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t INTRODUCTION -- |t CHAPTER ONE The "Human Machine" and the Call to "Wholeness" -- |t CHAPTER TWO Biology against Democracy and the "Gorilla-Machine" -- |t CHAPTER THREE World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System -- |t CHAPTER FOUR "A Peacefully Blossoming Tree": The Rational Enchantment of Gestalt Psychology -- |t CHAPTER FIVE The Self-Actualizing Brain and the Biology of Existential Choice -- |t CHAPTER SIX Life Science, Nazi Wholeness, and the "Machine" in Germany's Midst -- |t CONCLUSION -- |t NOTES -- |t BIBLIOGRAPH -- |t INDEX |
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520 | |a 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 the head, to "reenchant" even as it explained. Critics since have linked this holism to a German irrationalism that is supposed to have paved the way to Nazism. In a penetrating analysis of this science, Anne Harrington shows that in fact the story of holism in Germany is a politically heterogeneous story with multiple endings. Its alliances with Nazism were not inevitable, but resulted from reorganizational processes that ultimately brought commitments to wholeness and race, healing and death into a common framework. Before 1933, holistic science was a uniquely authoritative voice in cultural debates on the costs of modernization. It attracted not only scientists with Nazi sympathies but also moderates and leftists, some of whom left enduring humanistic legacies. Neither a "reduction" of science to its politics, nor a vision in which the sociocultural environment is a backdrop to the "internal" work of science, this story instead emphasizes how metaphor and imagery allow science to engage "real" phenomena of the laboratory in ways that are richly generative of human meanings and porous to the social and political imperatives of the hour. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) | |
650 | 0 | |a Holism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Life (Biology) |x Philosophy. | |
650 | 0 | |a Medicine |z Germany |x Philosophy |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Mind and body |x Philosophy. | |
650 | 0 | |a Science |z Germany |x Philosophy |x History. | |
650 | 7 | |a SCIENCE / History. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a Anschauung (Uexküll). | ||
653 | |a Bleuler, E. | ||
653 | |a Burschenschaften. | ||
653 | |a Der Biologe. | ||
653 | |a Driesch, H. | ||
653 | |a Freud, S. | ||
653 | |a Gelb, A. | ||
653 | |a Green Party of Germany. | ||
653 | |a Haeckel, E. | ||
653 | |a Haering, T. | ||
653 | |a Jung, C. G. | ||
653 | |a Kant, I. | ||
653 | |a Kreisau Circle. | ||
653 | |a Kulturkampf. | ||
653 | |a Kühne, W. | ||
653 | |a Lebensborn. | ||
653 | |a Mourgue, R. | ||
653 | |a Nazi medicine. | ||
653 | |a Prague Circle. | ||
653 | |a Rosenberg, A. | ||
653 | |a Sturm-und-Drang. | ||
653 | |a Troeltsch, E. | ||
653 | |a World War I. | ||
653 | |a atomism. | ||
653 | |a bio-politics. | ||
653 | |a entropy, chaos and. | ||
653 | |a holism. | ||
653 | |a industrialization. | ||
653 | |a logical positivists. | ||
653 | |a materialism. | ||
653 | |a mechanism. | ||
653 | |a neurology. | ||
653 | |a organic physicists. | ||
653 | |a phrenology. | ||
653 | |a psycho-physical parallelism. | ||
653 | |a reductionism. | ||
653 | |a sensationalism. | ||
653 | |a urbanization. | ||
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