Jacob Moleschott - a Transnational Biography
Subtitle: Science, Politics, and Popularization in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Edition: print
Series: Histoire ; 117
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: print
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9783837639704
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Physiologists; Philosophers, biography; Netherlands, biography; Europe, intellectual life
Table of contents: title: . https://www.transcript-verlag.de/chunk_detail_seite.php?doi=10.14361%2F9783839439708-toc; title: -; title: Table of Contents; title: Formalia and Acknowledgements; title: 9; title: Introduction: Jacob Moleschott as Transnational Actor in European Cultural History; title: 13; title: Object and Research Question; title: 13; title: State of Research, Theory and Method, Structure; title: 20; title: Sources and Archives; title: 33; title: Jacob Moleschott and the Beginning of his European Career; title: 37; title: The Moleschott Family in Leiden and ’s-Hertogenbosch; title: 40; title: The Gymnasium at Cleves and the Study of Classical Culture and Idealist Philosophy; title: 43; title: Studying Medicine at Heidelberg; title: 46; title: Back to the Netherlands: Medical Practice and Research in the Lab in Utrecht, 1845-1847; title: 55; title: Back to Heidelberg: Popularization and Revolution, 1847-1856; title: 60; title: Georg Forster: Moleschott’s Representation  of a Politically Engaged Scientist; title: 94; title: Moleschott’s Anthropologie as Synthesis of All Disciplines: A Life’s Project; title: 100; title: Conclusion; title: 110; title: Moleschott’s Popularization of Physiology  and Dietetics in Germany; title: 113; title: Women as Further Popularizers of Moleschott’s Work; title: 122; title: Nature as Organic Whole: “The Unity of Life”; title: 123; title: Dietetics; title: 133; title: Conclusion; title: 137; title: Zürich: Meeting Point of European Liberal Elites; title: 141; title: Moleschott at the University of Zürich, 1856-1861; title: 147; title: Licht und Leben; title: 157; title: Conclusion; title: 161; title: Experimental Physiology in Turin  and Popularization in the Kingdom of Italy, 1861-1878; title: 163; title: Moleschott’s Arrival to his “Adoptive Fatherland”; title: 163; title: Cultural and Professional Life in Turin; title: 175; title: The Italian Citizenship: Moleschott’s “Grand Naturalization”; title: 181; title: A Public Personality on the Way to Full Political Engagement; title: 185; title: Moleschott’s Popularization of the Natural Sciences  in Turin and its Transnational Reception; title: 189; title: Conclusion; title: 220; title: Moleschott in Rome (1878-1893): Scholar and Senator  between Internal and Foreign Politics; title: 223; title: Moleschott and Women’s Rights; title: 229; title: Moleschott’s Engagement Against Anti-Semitism; title: 240; title: Moleschott’s Academic Activity and Popularization  of Scientific and Political Ideas at the University of Rome; title: 245; title: Moleschott’s Conception of Science in the Debates  on the Reform of  Higher Education in Italy (1886-1887); title: 259; title: Shaping the Body of the Nation: Moleschott and the Debate  on Physical Education in Nineteenth-Century Italy (1878); title: 287; title: Taxation and Nutrition: The Debate on the Abolition of the Grist Tax (Macinato) between Nutritional Theory,  Political Economy and Social Policy (1880); title: 303; title: Conclusion: Politics, Natural Science, and the Function of the Classics; title: 323; title: Cultural Politics: The Civilizing Mission of Science; title: 327; title: The Planned Congrès International  pour le Progrès des Sciences Sociales (1866); title: 329; title: The Monument to Giordano Bruno and its Political Meaning (1889); title: 337; title: Moleschott’s Role of Mediator  in the International Sanitary Conference (1885); title: 351; title: Moleschott on Criminal Anthropology and Penal Law; title: 357; title: The Debate About the Conference on Criminal Anthropology (Rome 1885):  Moleschott versus Tommasi-Crudeli; title: 359; title: Moleschott’s Speeches at the International Congress  on Criminal Anthropology, Rome 1885; title: 368; title: Italian Penal Law between Criminal Anthropology and Natural Philosophy; title: 378; title: Conclusion: Moleschott’s Speeches on Penal Law  as a Form of Popularization and a Plea for Secularization; title: 383; title: Moleschott and Translation; title: 391; title: Criminal Anthropology and Moleschott’s Collaboration  with Cesare Lombroso; title: 391; title: The Process of Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge; title: 408; title: Moleschott as Mediating Figure between Nations and Cultures; title: 414; title: Conclusion: Translation and Mediation; title: 427; title: Celebrating Moleschott, Remembering Moleschott; title: 429; title: Celebrating Moleschott: The Feste Giubilari in 1892; title: 429; title: Remembering Moleschott: Moleschott’s Commemorations  at the Senate and at the University; title: 434; title: Conclusion: Jacob Moleschott, A Transnational Actor  between Science and Politics; title: 439; title: Bibliography; title: 449; title: Archives (with Abbreviations); title: 449; title: Primary Literature by Jacob Moleschott; title: 453; title: Primary Literature by Authors Other than Jacob Moleschott; title: 467; title: Reference Works (with Abbreviations); title: 471; title: Secondary Literature; title: 472; title: -; title: .