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Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler » (Reprint)
Authors: Anne Harrington
ISBN-13: 9780691050508, ISBN-10: 0691050503
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: Reprint
Author Biography: Anne Harrington
Book Synopsis
"[Harrington's] book will serve as a model to an entire generation of historians of science attempting to understand the cultural meaning of science in a far deeper way than their precursors."—Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Johnson - The Times Literary Supplement
Anne Harrington has confirmed the status of German culture in the first half of this century as the principal crucible of modernity.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | The "Human Machine" and the Call to "Wholeness" | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Biology against Democracy and the "Gorilla-Machine" | 34 |
| Ch. 3 | World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System | 72 |
| Ch. 4 | "A Peacefully Blossoming Tree": The Rational Enchantment of Gestalt Psychology | 103 |
| Ch. 5 | The Self-Actualizing Brain and the Biology of Existential Choice | 140 |
| Ch. 6 | Life Science, Nazi Wholeness, and the "Machine" in Germany's Midst | 175 |
| Conclusion | 207 | |
| Notes | 213 | |
| Bibliography | 275 | |
| Index | 303 |
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