About the Author

Robert J. Richards is professor of history, philosophy, and psychology and director of the Fishbein Center for the History of Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior and The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"A very important book which will be a milestone in the study of Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology. Extremely well written and very readable, The Romantic Conception of Life covers figures central to the development of modern biology who have hardly been treated at all in English. It will be useful to philosophers, historians of science, and Germanists alike." - Frederick Beiser, Syracuse University