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Enrico Pasini, « Charles T. Wolfe, La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie. Une histoire du vitalisme », Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, ID : 10670/1.l4tx5o
The first point that a reviewer must inescapably avouch about this book is that the Author is the best specialist of the subject matter and that the opus was long awaited. The book opens with the grande révolution dans les sciences that Diderot announces in his Thoughts on the interpretation of Nature (1753). This happens to happen at the same time as the birth of a volatile but specific language for a series of phenomena pertaining to living things, and in particular to ‘living matter’. This...