Romantic Biology, 1890–1945

Maurizio Esposito

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Maurizio Esposito, University of Santiago, Chile

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781440469

Subjects:: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy

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Organismal biology is an established scholarly discipline, yet its origins have been obscured by Darwinian histories of biology. Emerging over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, organismal biology stemmed not from the work of Darwin and his circle, but was inspired by Romantic natural philosophers, embryologists, anatomists and physiologists. Esposito presents a historiography of organicist and holistic thought through an examination of the work of leading biologists from Britain (Haldane, Thompson, Russell and Woodger) and America (Ritter, Child, Lillie and Just). He shows how this work relates to earlier Romantic thought and sets it within the wider context of the history and philosophy of the life sciences.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-12

1 - Old and New Organicisms
pp 13-32

2 - Romantic Biology: Establishing Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
pp 33-52

3 - The British Version: J. S. Haldane, D'Arcy Thompson and the Organism as a Whole
pp 53-82

4 - The New Generation: A Failed Organismal Revolution
pp 83-114

5 - The American Version: Chicago and Beyond
pp 115-144

6 - Romantic Biology from California's Shores: W. E. Ritter, C. M. Child and the Scripps Marine Association
pp 145-178

Conclusion: Whatever Happened to Organismal Biologies?
pp 179-188

Notes
pp 189-230

Works Cited
pp 231-250

Index
pp 251-257

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