『From Here to Eternity : Ernst Haeckel and Scientific Faith』

Mario A. Di Gregorio

(2005年6月刊行,Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht[Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft : Band 003], Göttingen, 637 pp., ISBN:3525569726 [hbk] → 書評版元ページ

【目次】
Acknowledgments

Part I : Development or Faust

Introduction : The worm who would be professor 17

1. Young Haeckel 26

 1.1 Early upbringing 26
 1.2 Würzburg and Virchow 35
 1.3 Haeckel and Johannes Müller in Berlin 44

2. Haeckel at Jena University : Gegenbaur Calls 51

 2.1 Gegenbaur's plots 51
 2.2 Haeckel in Italy — Italienfahrt 56
 2.3 Haeckel arrives in Jena 58
 2.4 The Radiolarien monograph 65
 2.5 First encounter with T. H. Huxley's views 71
 2.6 First encounter with Darwin's theory 71
 2.7 Haeckel annotates the Origin of Species 77

3. Foundation of the Theory 86

 3.1 The Stettin Speach 86
 3.2 Haeckel, Schleicher and Philology 98
 3.3 Annus horribilis : 1864 — annus mirabilis : 1866 106

4. The Theory 115

 4.1 The Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 115
 4.2 Individuality 123
 4.3 Origin 133

5. Darwinism 146

 5.1 Gegenbaur's method 146
 5.2 Gegenbaur's and Haeckel's use of Darwin's theory : adaptation and heredity 156
 5.3 Ontogeny and phylogeny — the triumph of Entwickelungsgeschichte 160
 5.4 Typology and classification 172
 5.5 The law of progress 188
 5.6 Evolutionary morphology 191

6. The Ghost in the Machine 198

 6.1 Monism 198
 6.2 A piece of calcreous philosophy or philosophers from the ivory tower to the deep sea 203
 6.3 Gastrea Theory 217
 6.4 Palingenesis or the night of zombies 222
 6.5 The memory of matter 224
 6.6 Human evolution 227
  6.6.1 Sad apes and brutish men 227
  6.6.2 Mind and language 237
 6.7 Unphilosophical clicks 239
 6.8 Pretty apes and ugly Australians 249
 6.9 A Haeckelian ethnologist : Friedlich Müller 252
 6.10 Cultural versus Physical 258

Part II : Unity or Gretchen

7. Without Gegenbaur — Haeckel's Years of Controversy 265

 7.1 The vertebral theory of the skull 265
 7.2 Wilhelm His and Alexander Goette 276
 7.3 Haeckel versus Agassiz 283
 7.4 Haeckel versus Michelis and Wigand 287
 7.5 Semper, Claus and others 292
 7.6 The charge of the old fogeys 301

8. The Next Generation 306

 8.1 Haeckel's students, Gegenbaur's school 306
 8.2 Goliath against the Neapolitan Camorra 324

9. The Berliners 338

 9.1 Trouble in Munich 338
 9.2 Du Bois-Reymond 342
 9.3 Virchow 350

10. In Search of Interdisciplinary Work 364

 10.1 David Friedrich Strauss 364
 10.2 Friedrich Hellwald 376
 10.3 Bartholomäus von Carneri 386

Part III : Eternity or Mephistopheles

11. Waiting for the Synthesis 395

 11.1 Kosmos 395
 11.2 The philosophical background 398

12. The Sea 405

 12.1 The Challenger expedition 405
 12.2 Radiolarians 414
 12.3 Siphonaphora 417
 12.4 Bathybius 430
 12.5 Haeckel on the move : the tropics and Ceylon 438
 12.6 Plankton 445

13. Systematic Phylogeny 449

 13.1 The new system of nature 449
 13.2 The unity of the programme under threat 484

14. The Final Synthesis 487

 14.1 Science and religion 487
 14.2 The system of the universe : the final act 498
 14.3 The triumph of beauty 515
 14.4 A further chapter in the system of the universe 520

15. War 526

 15.1 Failures and successes 526
 15.2 The end of progress 531
 15.3 Liquid crystals 537

16. Conclusion : "Tod und Verklärung" — Death and Transfiguration 544

 16.1 Haeckel's relations 544
 16.2 Haeckel's trinity 549
 16.3 Haeckel and Darwin 552
 16.4 Haeckel and Goethe's heritage 560
 16.5 Haeckel in Germany and Europe 564


Chronology 575
Ernst Haeckel Bibliography 578
Bibliography 583
Index of Names 627
Index of Selected Topics 635