Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and LiteratureL. J. Jordanova |
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... organic complexity was further fuelled by the drive to explain the mechanisms of human thought in a naturalistic way . Behaviour in general and human thought in particular focused attention on the brain and nervous system , the organic ...
... organic complexity was further fuelled by the drive to explain the mechanisms of human thought in a naturalistic way . Behaviour in general and human thought in particular focused attention on the brain and nervous system , the organic ...
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... organic integration , but then she deliber- ately highlights the lack of organic unity within the society . Furthermore , although the moral narration of the novel rein- forces the idea of uniform laws governing the circumstances and ...
... organic integration , but then she deliber- ately highlights the lack of organic unity within the society . Furthermore , although the moral narration of the novel rein- forces the idea of uniform laws governing the circumstances and ...
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... organic life . In the work of G. H. Lewes , however , George Eliot found an organic theory of history that not only posited a process of reciprocal interaction between organism and environment , but also extended these premises to the ...
... organic life . In the work of G. H. Lewes , however , George Eliot found an organic theory of history that not only posited a process of reciprocal interaction between organism and environment , but also extended these premises to the ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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