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Self-Generation: Biology, Philosophy, and Literature Around 1800

Self-Generation: Biology, Philosophy, and Literature Around 1800

Müller-Sievers, Helmut

Hardcover

Series: Writing Science

Sports GeneralBiology

ISBN10: 0804727791
ISBN13: 9780804727792
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The genealogy and function of epigenesis--the theory that organisms generate themselves under the guidance of a formative drive--provides a unique means of understanding the profound changes in philosophy, philosophy of language, and literature at the turn of the nineteenth century.

The book begins by describing how and why epigenesis came to replace the reigning model of biological origination, preformation--the theory that all organisms were preformed at the creation of the world. Contemporary with these developments, Kant used the figures of epigenesis and self-formation to illustrate his concepts of the origin of the categories, the possible success of practical reason, and the validity of aesthetic and teleological judgments. The author shows how Kant's figurative use of self-generation was turned into an indispensable determination by Fichte and his successors: philosophical knowledge can claim absolute certainty only if it can prove that it generates itself in logically accountable procedures.

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