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Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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Hahn, Andre M.

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This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...

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(1809-1882) had written to the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), “Lord, what a rhapsody that
Translating the Animal

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Owen, Melody

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My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...

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. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, 2014, The Sixth Extinction It is onrushing. We are in a kind of a time tunnel of
Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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Blanchard, Nicholas

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By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...

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Exploring the structural dynamics of human understanding : an historico-philosophical analysis of the problem of meaning in Heidegger and Bohr

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Tattersall, Mason

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This dissertation explores the structural dynamics of human understanding and particularly the concept of meaning and its connections to concepts of ultimate ground, necessity and contingency, language, and perception. It focuses on the history of the concept of meaning in early twentieth-century European physics and philosophy, through an analysis of...

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History, Philosophy, and Religion3

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Farber, Paul L.1
Luft, David1
Osborne, Michael1

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Hahn, Andre M.1
Owen, Melody1
Tattersall, Mason1

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2010-20194

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History of Science3
Environmental Arts and Humanities1

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English [eng]4

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Oregon State University. Graduate School2

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Avatars (Virtual reality)1
Bohr, Niels, 1885-19621
Computer animation1
Domestication -- History -- 20th century1
Ecology1
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