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Reenchanted Science:
Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Anne Harrington

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1The "Human Machine" and the Call to "Wholeness"3
Ch. 2Biology against Democracy and the "Gorilla-Machine"34
Ch. 3World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System72
Ch. 4"A Peacefully Blossoming Tree": The Rational Enchantment of Gestalt Psychology103
Ch. 5The Self-Actualizing Brain and the Biology of Existential Choice140
Ch. 6Life Science, Nazi Wholeness, and the "Machine" in Germany's Midst175
Conclusion207
Notes213
Bibliography275
Index303

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