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Kielmeyer and the organic world : texts and interpretations / edited by Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler.

Kielmeyer, Carl Friedrich, 1765-1844 Container of (expression): Works. Selections. English. (Added Author). Azadpour, Lydia, (editor.). Whistler, Daniel, 1982- (editor.).

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"Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the 'father of philosophy of nature' owing to his profound influence on German Idealist and Romantic Naturphilosophie. This exciting new book contains the first ever English translations of Kielmeyer's key texts, along with contextual essays by leading scholars expert in the philosophy of nature and the formation of the life sciences. Topics covered include: the laws of nature, the meaning of 'organism', Kielmeyer and ecology, sexual differentiation in animal life and Kielmeyer's relationship to Kant, Schelling and Hegel. As such these essays provide a comprehensive English reference to Kielmeyer's historical and contemporary significance"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 9781350143487
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Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: London, UK ; Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Kielmeyer's fame and fate / Kai Torsten Kanz -- On the relations between organic forces in the series of different organisations, and on the laws and consequences of these relations / C.F. Kielmeyer -- On natural history / C.F. Kielmeyer -- Ideas for a developmental history of the Earth and its organisations : letter to Windischmann, 1804 / C.F. Kielmeyer -- On Kant and German philosophy of nature : letter to Cuvier, 1807 / C.F. Kielmeyer -- Force and law in Kielmeyer's 1793 speech / Andrew Cooper -- Organic physics as a phenomenology of the organic / Thomas Bach -- The path of the great machine : Kielmeyer's economy of extinction / Lydia Azadpour -- Recapitulation all the way down? Philosophical ontogeny in Kielmeyer and Schelling / Iain Hamilton Grant -- Kielmeyer and the cybernetics of the organic world / Andrea Gambarotto -- Reproduction, production and the earth : the place of sex in Kielmeyer's 'Economy of the organic world' / Susanne Lettow -- Mechanics beyond the machine in Kielmeyer and Eschenmayer / Jocelyn Holland -- The logic of organic forces : Hegel's critique of Kielmeyer / Benjamin Berger.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2021).