
By Maurizio Esposito
In this e-book, Esposito provides a historiography of organicist and holistic proposal via an exam of the paintings of prime biologists from Britain and the USA. He exhibits how this paintings pertains to previous Romantic culture and units it in the wider context of the background and philosophy of the existence sciences.
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