Knowledge of Life

Table of Contents Foreword: Life, as Such Paola Manari Manari, Paola Todd Meyers Meyers, Todd Translators' Note by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg Introduction: Thought and the Living Pt. 1 Method 1 Experimentation in Animal Biology Pt. 2 History 2 Cell Theory Pt. 3 Philosophy 3 Aspects of Vitalism 4 Machine and Organism 5 The Living and Its Milieu 6 The Normal and the Pathological 7 Monstrosity and the Monstrous Appendixes 1 Note on the Transition from Fibrillar Theory to Cell Theory 2 Note on the Relationship Between Cell Theory and Leibniz's Philosophy 3 Extracts from the "Discours sur l'anatomie du cervcau" ("Discourse on the Anatomy of the Brain"), delivered hy Nicolas Steno in Paris in 1665 to the "Messieurs de l'Assemblee de chez Monsieur Thevenot" in Paris Notes Bibliography.