Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. INTRODUCTION. Kant’s Organicism 1
5. 1. Generation and the Task of Classification 16
6. 2. Buffon’s Natural History and the Founding of Organicism 35
7. 3. Kant and the Problem of Origin 51
8. 4. The Rebirth of Metaphysics 70
9. 5. From the Unity of Reason to the Unity of Race 92
10. 6. Empirical Psychology in Tetens and Kant 110
11. 7. Kant’s Architectonic: System and Organism in the Critique of Pure Reason 125
12. Epilogue: A Daring Adventure of Reason 146
13. Notes 155
14. Bibliography 219
15. Index 239