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This far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused many of them to reject the prevailing doctrine of mechanism and turn to a vitalistic model to account for phenomena in natural history, the life sciences, and chemistry. As he traces the ramifications of this new way of thinking through time and across disciplines, Reill provocatively complicates our understanding of the way key Enlightenment thinkers viewed nature. His sophisticated analysis ultimately questions postmodern narratives that have assumed a monolithic Enlightenment-characterized by the dominance of instrumental reason-that has led to many of the disasters of modern life.

Science --- Vitalism. --- Biology --- Life (Biology) --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- History --- Philosophy --- Vitalism.. --- Science -- History -- 18th century. --- 18th century. --- animism. --- charles louis dumas. --- chemistry. --- counter enlightenment. --- cuvier. --- early modern enlightenment. --- enlightenment. --- epigenesis. --- generation. --- history of science. --- history. --- life force. --- life science. --- mechanism. --- modernity. --- natural history. --- natural philosophy. --- natural world. --- nature. --- naturphilosophie. --- philosophy. --- physiology. --- reason. --- relationship with nature. --- religion and science. --- reproduction. --- romanticism. --- science. --- scientific disciplines. --- spark of life. --- stahlian chemistry. --- vitalism. --- william cullen.

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Vital Forces tells the history of the 'biochemical revolution', a period of unprecedentedly rapid advance in human knowledge that profoundly affected our view of life and laid the foundation for modern medicine and biotechnology. The story is told in a clear, engaging, and absorbing manner. This delightful work relates the fascinating and staggering advances in concepts and theories over the last 200 years and introduces the major figures of the times.Vital Forces also describes the discovery of the molecular basis of life through the stories of the scientists involved, inclu

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