Romantic biology, 1890-1945

Author(s)

• Esposito, Maurizio

Bibliographic Information

Romantic biology, 1890-1945

by Maurizio Esposito

（History and philosophy of biology / series editors, Dawn M Digrius, Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, no. 1）

Pickering & Chatto, 2013

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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?

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB16678344
• ISBN:
  • 9781848934207
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 257 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 570.12
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Organisms
  • LCSH : Biology -- Classification
  • LCSH : Biology -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB16678173