『Reenchanted Science : Holism in German Culture From Wilhelm II to Hitler』

Anne Harrington

(1996年刊行,Princeton Univeristy Press,ISBN:0691021422 [hbk] / ISBN:0691050508 [pbk])



【目次】
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xv

Chapter 1 The "Human Machine" and the Call to "Wholeness" 3

The Original Goethean Vision of "Wholeness" 4
A Fractured Nation and the Mechanists' Quest for Unity in Nature 7
Necessqry Ways of Knowing and the Mechanization of Mind and Brain 12
Wholeness Betrayed : Political Unification and the Rise of the "Machine" Society 19
The Place of "Wholeness" in the Fin de Siècle Upheavels 23
World War I and Its Aftermath : Science as Cultural Critique 30

Chapter 2 Biology against Democracy and the "Gorilla-Machine" 34

On the Way to a Biology of Subjects 38
Scientists in Their Soap Bubbles : Uexküll's Kantian Challenge to Science 44
Revitalizing Life : Unweltlehre and the Vitalist-Mechanist Controversy 48
The Shocks of World War I and Weimar 54
Toward a "Biology of the State" 56
Uexküll on the "Jewish Question" 62
The Fight against the "Gorilla-Machine" 63
Uexküll's Relationship to National Socialism 68

Chapter 3 World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System 72

Shock, Recovery, and the Localization of Time in the Brain 77
World War I : Degeneration and Renewal 82
The Biology of Instincts and the Evolutionary Arrow 88
The "World of Orientation" versus the "World of Feeling" 92
Morality in the Cells : The "Syneidesis" or Biological Conscience 96
An Answer to "Ignorabimus" : Monakow's Neurobiology of Scientific Knowledge 98

Chapter 4 "A Peacefully Blossoming Tree": The Rational Enchantment of Gestalt Psychology 103

Gestalt versus Chaos : The Voice of Houston Stewart Chamberlin 106
Gestalt versus Chaos : The Voice of Christian von Ehrenfels 108
Max Wertheimer : Claiming Gestalt for Science and Rational Enchantment 111
The Mind's Laws of "Immanent Structuralism" 114
"A Peaceful Blossoming Tree" : Wertheimer's Vision for Weimar 117
Attacks on the Berlin Gestalt Vision 123
The Rise of National Socialism and Wertheimer's Emigration to America 128
Wolfgang Köhler's Case to Americans for the Reality of Values in a World of Facts 130
Wertheimer's "Gestalt Logic" as an Antidote to Demagoguery 132

Chapter 5 The Self-Actualizing Brain and the Biology of Existential Choice 140

The Imperative of Regeneration in the Clinic and Society 142
Insights from Brain-Damaged Soldiers : Actualization and Wholeness 145
Changing Theoretical Orientations : From Reflex Theory to Gestalt 151
Reason, Courage, and the Making of a Waimar Hero 154
The Call for a Holistic Clinical Practice 159
The Goethean "Schau" : Toward a Holistic Epistemology 162
Goldstein's Persecution and the Biology of Fascism 164
Goldstein in America : The "Wholeness" in the Human Encounter 169
The Lessons of Goethe in the Post-Hiroshima Age 171

Chapter 6 Life Science, Nazi Wholeness, and the "Machine" in Germany's Midst 175

Gestalt, Goethe, and Führerprinzip 178
The "Jew" as Chaos and Mechanism 181
Holistic Medicine and the Sick Man as Machine 185
Holistic Opposition : The Case of Hans Driesch 188
Nazi Mechanism and the Decline of Nazi Holism 193
Ambiguous Legacies : The Case of Viktor von Weizsäcker 200


Conclusion 207


Notes 213
Bibliography 275
Index 303