Discovering the human : life science and the arts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / / Ralf Haekel, Sabine Blackmore (eds.).
'Discovering the Human' investigates the emergence of the modern human sciences and their impact on literature, art and other media in the 18th and 19th centuries. Up until the 1830s, science and culture were part of a joint endeavour to discover and explore the secret of life. The questio...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 'Discovering the Human' investigates the emergence of the modern human sciences and their impact on literature, art and other media in the 18th and 19th centuries. Up until the 1830s, science and culture were part of a joint endeavour to discover and explore the secret of life. The question 'What is life?' unites science and the arts during the Ages of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and at the end of the Romantic period, a shift of focus from the human as an organic whole to the specialized disciplines signals the dawning of modernity. The emphasis of the edited collection is threefold: the fi |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 3737001375 384700137X |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Ralf Haekel, Sabine Blackmore (eds.). |