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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE The "Human Machine" and the Call to "Wholeness"
- CHAPTER TWO Biology against Democracy and the "Gorilla-Machine"
- CHAPTER THREE World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System
- CHAPTER FOUR "A Peacefully Blossoming Tree": The Rational Enchantment of Gestalt Psychology
- CHAPTER FIVE The Self-Actualizing Brain and the Biology of Existential Choice
- CHAPTER SIX Life Science, Nazi Wholeness, and the "Machine" in Germany's Midst
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPH
- INDEX