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Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
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The article was published on 2001-04-19. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biological anthropology.read more
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"The devil's handwriting": Precolonial discourse, ethnographic acuity, and cross-identification in German colonialism
TL;DR: The lack of integration of materialist, culturalist, and psychoanalytic approaches in the colonial literature echoes broader oppositions that structure the human sciences today as mentioned in this paper, and the need for a reintegration of the psychic into social theory has been argued forcefully by Zizek (1989, 1991) and Elliott (2000).
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Self-organization and emergence in life sciences
TL;DR: This book discusses self-Organization, Selection and Emergence in the Theories of Evolution, and a role for Mathematical Models in Formalizing Self-Organizing Systems.
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Kant and experimental philosophy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine Kant's account of science in the context of the experimental tradition of philosophy, particularly in relation to the generation dilemma of the eighteenth century, and argue that Kant does not deflate the epistemological status of experimental physics but rather introduces systematicity to the Experimental tradition.
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Of Ends and Endings: Teleological and Variational Models of Romantic Narrative
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the initially dynamic logic of Bildung is gradually vanquished by an institutional model that shifts away from Goethe's contingent, open-ended logic of development and towards a notion of the virtual and soon canonical property of information.
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Kant and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb: A Historical Misunderstanding
TL;DR: In this paper, the physical-mechanical and the sheerly teleological modes of explanation of organized nature are unified for the first time in the form of a formative force.
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Kant, Blumenbach, and Vital Materialism in German Biology
TL;DR: The role of Immanuel Kant in shaping the theoretical foundations of the life sciences between 1790 and the late 1840s is explored in this article, based on the belief that a reconstruction of the path through which Kant's methodological insights were first integrated in a systematic and concrete manner into the work of a biological theorist will shed important new light on the development of German biology.
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Blumenbach's Racial Geometry
TL;DR: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach as discussed by the authors proposed a classification raciale de la diversite humaine fondee sur une geometrie anatomique differente, ce qui suscita des consequences sociales desastreuses entre la communaute scientifique anthropologique and le racisme.