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Eighteenth-Century Vitalism - Bodies, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Eighteenth-Century Vitalism - Bodies, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, New)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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Vitalism is usually associated with Romantic theories of nature,
but the supposition of a 'vital principle' or life-force recurred
throughout eighteenth-century natural philosophy, to counter the
inadequacy of mechanism to understand the operation of natural
life. This book traces the persistent presence of a language of
vital nature not only in eighteenth-century science, but in
literary and philosophical writing too: in moral philosophy,
theories of sensibility and political economy, and in the radical
journalism and women's writing of the 1790s. It explores the
influence of the Scottish vitalist physiology of Robert Whytt and
others on writers and thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith, David
Hume, Erasmus Darwin, John Hunter, John Thelwall and Mary
Wollstonecraft. In doing so, it shows the centrality of vitalism to
eighteenth-century accounts of the body, nature, matter and life,
and offers a new way of understanding the relationship between
eighteenth-century science and culture and that of the Romantic
period.
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