Entelechy and the ontogenetic machine
work and views of Hans Driesch from 1895 to 1910
pp. 38-40
in: , Landmarks in developmental biology 1883–1924, Berlin, Springer, 1997Abstract
The previous Essay traced some epistemological stages along Driesch's road to neo-vitalism, a transgression that is singular in view of his previous merits (and recognition) as an experimental embryologist. Here we shall review his experimental work between the teleo-mechanistic Analytische Theorie der organischen Entwicklung of 1894 (see Essay 11) and the end of his career as an active embryologist, which came shortly after his neo-vitalistic Gifford Lectures of 1908.