... cultural terms, that the disenchantment of life was accompanied by the (re)enchantment of ordinary matter. © 2019 by The Regents of the University of California 2019 cell membrane protoplasm plant physiology colloid chemistry biophysics physical chemistry osmosis materialism DANIEL LIU...

... the research agendas of Raspail and Schwann, and contrasts the philosophical and political beliefs and incentives behind them. Whereas Raspail was a proponent of republicanism and materialism, Schwann opposed the modernist agenda of explaining nature and humankind without God, as well a democratic reshaping...

... biological materialism, combined with his outspoken anticlericalism, constitutes a political stance, and show how the concept of “solidarity” helped him to cast a new light on the relations between the parts and the whole, both in biology and social policy. This essay is part of a special issue entitled...