Description: Eighteenth-Century Vitalism by C. Packham This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the vitalist turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the vitalist turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s. Notes This book traces the language of vital nature in eighteenth-century science, literature and philosophy, including in the work of Whytt, Smith, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall and Mary Wollstonecraft Author Biography CATHERINE PACKHAM Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, UK. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Eighteenth Century Vitalism Forms of Enlightenment: Embodied Beings in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Generating Sympathy: Sensibility, Animation, and Vitality in Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft Labouring Bodies in Political Economy: Labour, Vitalist Physiology and the Body Politic Enlightenment Legacies and Cultural Radicalism: Physiology and Politics in the 1790s Animated Nature: Erasmus Darwin and the Poetry and Politics of Vital Matter, 1789-1803 Animation and Vitality in Womens Writing of the 1790s Conclusion: Eighteenth-century Vitalism, Romantic Organicism, Literature and the Disciplines Bibliography Index Long Description Vitalism is usually associated with Romantic theories of nature, but the supposition of a vital principle or life-force recurred throughout eighteenth-century natural philosophy, to counter the inadequacy of mechanism to understand the operation of natural life. This book traces the persistent presence of a language of vital nature not only in eighteenth-century science, but in literary and philosophical writing too: in moral philosophy, theories of sensibility and political economy, and in the radical journalism and womens writing of the 1790s. It explores the influence of the Scottish vitalist physiology of Robert Whytt and others on writers and thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, John Hunter, John Thelwall and Mary Wollstonecraft. In doing so, it shows the centrality of vitalism to eighteenth-century accounts of the body, nature, matter and life, and offers a new way of understanding the relationship between eighteenth-century science and culture and that of the Romantic period. Description for Bookstore This book traces the language of vital nature in eighteenth-century science, literature and philosophy, including in the work of Whytt, Smith, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall and Mary Wollstonecraft Details ISBN0230276180 Language English ISBN-10 0230276180 ISBN-13 9780230276185 Media Book Format Hardcover Publication Date 2012-01-31 Year 2012 Short Title 18TH-CENTURY VITALISM 2012/E Pages 251 Edition Description 2012 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Bodies, Culture, Politics Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2012-01-31 NZ Release Date 2012-01-31 UK Release Date 2012-01-31 Author C. Packham Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Series Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Alternative 9781349325078 DEWEY 147 Illustrations VIII, 251 p. Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97217602;
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ISBN-13: 9780230276185
Book Title: Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics
Item Height: 216mm
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Author: C. Packham
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Language: English
Topic: Literature, Popular Philosophy, Science, History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2012
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Item Weight: 455g
Number of Pages: 251 Pages
