With a main theme of finite life, Bielik-Robson enlists four major allies uniting them under the heading of messianic
vitalism, despite their differences.
If rhythm is the "pulse of the unitary
vitalism," then seemingly there are two things here indeed, namely "the
vitalism and rhythm which constitute the genetic structure and dynamics of life" (Akbar, ne Weems, 1975, 14).
(16) Thus, though not anti-scientific, critical
vitalism is anti-reductionist--in contrast, for example, to the epistemological 'atomism' advocated by the Viennese Circle, and in stark contrast to Wittgenstein's wrathful attitude of 'explaining away' almost all interesting philosophical problems as so-called 'pseudo-problems' in his 'therapeutic' anti-philosophy.
At this point, a place for
vitalism remained in Hulme's thought; the intuitive substratum of mind described by Bergson was compatible with a desire for "absolute values," achieved through "freezing" the living into hard static shapes.
The challenge of
vitalism: Classical and contemporary frames of thought.
Finally, there's Branka Arsic's Bird Relics: Grief and
Vitalism in Thoreau (2015).
Despite his attacking
vitalism as a kind of pantheism and denial of divine power, the influence exerted by alchemy, indeed, led him to believe in the possibility of contact with supernatural agents such as the presence of supernatural entities in the work of witches and magicians.
Clinton Godart's "Tezuka Osamu's Circle of Life:
Vitalism, Evolution, and Buddhism" features an enlightening discussion of the cyclical nature of evolutionary ideas in twentieth-century Japan, and Tezuka's use of manga and anime (particularly Phoenix) to disseminate this philosophy.
Photography mediates experience by removing it from time and forcing a balance (or a choice) between "the
vitalism of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze on the one hand, and the differance of Jacques Derrida and Bernard Steigler on the other" (p.
In a further echo of nazi-type idylls of home, hearth and local family businesses, Roepke also pointed to the need for workers to find pleasure and deep satisfaction at an almost spiritual level (
vitalism) in what they were doing, on the grounds that this would lessen, if not invalidate entirely, the need for any idea of collective organisation or renewed trade unionism.
Long before him, Elsasser [18] (also suspected of
vitalism, and ergo not found dignified enough for a Nobel Prize), attempting a scientific foundation of biology, made the same observation (while nevertheless arguing for the validity of quantum mechanics.)
Arnolad Ehret (1866-1922) was a German health educator and author of several books on diet, detoxification, fruitarianism, fasting, food combining, health, longevity, naturopathy, physical culture, and
vitalism. Ehret worked at Lust's Yungborn Sanitarium for 5 years.
Downer;
Vitalism and the crisis of sensibility, Joseph R.
Martin's most original contribution to Woolf studies is her reading of
vitalism in her novels: by reintroducing this term from its earlier appearance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she offers a historicized view of the ways in which Woolf weaves her characters together through poetic rhythms and webs of feeling.
