Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Mary Gregory (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-96768-7 (ISBN)

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In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.

Mary Gregory is a scholar of the French Enlightenment. For the past ten years she has been researching Diderot’s views regarding the metamorphosis of species in four of his texts, namely, the Pensées philosophiques (1746), the Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient (1749), the Pensées sur l’interprétation de la nature (1753), and the trilogy, the Entretien entre d’Alembert et Diderot (1769), the Rêve de d’Alembert (1769), and the Suite de l’Entretien (1769).

Introduction; Chapter One Chaos, Flux, Time, and Probability; Chapter Two Embryology, Epigenesis, and the Metamorphosis of Species; Chapter Three Spontaneous Generation; Chapter Four The Chain of Beings; Chapter Five The Mutability of Species; Chapter Six The Ascent of Consciousness; Conclusion;

Erscheinungsdatum	21.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	1-138-96768-8 / 1138967688
ISBN-13	978-1-138-96768-7 / 9781138967687
Zustand	Neuware