THE FORM OF BECOMING

The epoch around 1800 is considered by cultural historians as a decisive point in time -- the transition to modernity -- when the pe rception of living things changed in a fundamental way. Nature and all its creations were no longer seen within the framework of a r igid and timeless order, but from the perspective of coming into being, being continually reorganised and undergoing new development s.The Form of Becoming offers an innovative understanding, from the perspective of the history of culture and science, of the emerge nce arou...[Read more]