Vegetative Powers - The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies, sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature, and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical interpretations.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 234
Release date:	May 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Fabrizio Baldassarri • Andreas Blank
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	459
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-069708-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	3-03-069708-8
Barcode:	9783030697082

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