1st Edition

Romantic Biology, 1890–1945

By Maurizio Esposito Copyright 2014
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this book, Esposito presents a historiography of organicist and holistic thought through an examination of the work of leading biologists from Britain and America. He shows how this work relates to earlier Romantic tradition and sets it within the wider context of the history and philosophy of the life sciences.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Old and New Organicisms; Chapter 2 Romantic Biology: Establishing Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 3 The British Version: J. S. Haldane, D'arcy Thompson and the Organism as a Whole; Chapter 4 The New Generation: A Failed Organismal Revolution; Chapter 5 The American Version: Chicago and Beyond; Chapter 6 Romantic Biology from California's Shores: W. E. Ritter, C. M. Child and the Scripps Marine Association; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Whatever Happened to Organismal Biologies?;

    Biography

    Maurizio Esposito