Susanne Lettow teaches philosophy at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

Introduction
Susanne Lettow

Part I. Reproduction and the Early Life Sciences

1. Generation, Genealogy, and Time: The Concept of Reproduction from Histoire naturelle to Naturphilosophie
Susanne Lettow

2. Organic Molecules, Parasites, Urthiere: The Controversial Nature of Spermatic Animals, 1749-1841
Florence Vienne

3. The Scientific Construction of Gender and Generation in the German Late Enlightenment and in German Romantic Naturphilosophie
Peter Hanns Reill

4. Zeugungl Fortpflanzung: Distinctions of Medium in the Discourse on Generation around 1800
Jocelyn Holland

5. Treviranus' Biology: Generation, Degeneration, and the Boundaries of Life
Joan Steigerwald

Part II. Articulations of Race and Gender

6. Skin Color and the Origin of Physical Anthropology (1640-1850)
Renato G. Mazzolini

7. The Caucasian Slave Race: Beautiful Circassians and the Hybrid Origin of European Identity
Sara Figal

8. Analogy of Analogy: Animals and Slaves in Mary Wollstonecraft's Defense of Women's Rights
Penelope Deutscher

9. Reproducing Difference: Race and Heredity from a longue durée Perspective
Staffan Müller-Wille

10. Heredity and Hybridity in the Natural History of Kant, Girtanner, and Schelling during the 1790s
Robert Bernasconi

11. Sexual Polarity in Schelling and Hegel
Alison Stone

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