Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler Book

Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler, By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had disenchanted the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of wholeness heal wh, Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler

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Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Written by author Anne Harrington
Published by Princeton University Press, January 1999
By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal wh
"[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

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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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	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