Description: It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp.1740-1920. The history of vitalism is considered in the context of contemporary discourses on radical ...
Review Quotes: "The Early History of Embodied Cognition unquestionably advances Romantic literary scholarship." - Gabriel Finkelstein, University of Chicago, in: Modern, Vol. 108 No. 1, pp. 200-201