Chapter 1 Introduction: Vitalism and Its Legacies in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy

Chapter 2 Vitalism and the Problem of Individuation: Another Look at Bergson’s Élan Vital

Chapter 3 On the Heuristic Value of Hans Driesch’s Vitalism

Chapter 4 A Historico-Logical Re-assessment of Hans Driesch’s Vitalism

Chapter 5 “A Mountain of Nonsense”? Czech and Slovenian Receptions of Materialism and Vitalism from c. 1860s to the First World War

Chapter 6 The Critical Difference Between Holism and Vitalism in Cassirer’s Philosophy of Science

Chapter 7 Canguilhem and the Greeks: Vitalism Between History and Philosophy

Chapter 8 Canguilhem and the Logic of Life

Chapter 9 Is There Not a Truth of Vitalism? Vital Normativity in Canguilhem and Merleau-Ponty

Chapter 10 A ‘Fourth Wave’ of Vitalism in the Mid-20th Century?

Chapter 11 Metabolism in Crisis? A New Interplay Between Physiology and Ecology

Chapter 12 Vitalist Arguments in the Struggle for Human (Im)Perfection: The Debate Between Biologists and Theologians in the 1960s–1980s

Chapter 13 What Is Living and What Is Dead in Political Vitalism?