Of Phagocytes and Men: Tolstoy's Response to Mechnikov and the Religious Purpose of Science
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Article
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Berman, Anna A. (Author)
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Title:
CL: Comparative Literature
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Volume/ Issue No.: 2016/SEP V.68 N.3
Call No.:809.005 CLI Location: Periodicals & References Hall - 2nd floor
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p 296-311
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Literature & rhetorice
(1562)
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Abstract |
This essay explores the intellectual ties between Lev Tolstoy and the Nobel Prize winning pathologist Ilya Mechnikov. In Tolstoy's essays, letters, and diary entries he was notoriously critical of contemporary scientific study and its lack of a moral component. Beginning in the late 1880s he engaged in a virtually unknown polemic with Mechnikov about science and religion that culminated in a face-to-face meeting the year before Tolstoy's death...
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