Meaning of Vitalism | Babel Free

Definitions

The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Theories and philosophies of vitalism are concerned with the distinction between life and non-life in some form. Given this emphasis, vitalism always has political stakes: where the boundary between life and non-life is drawn is, as theorists of biopolitics have shown, a supremely political matter […] Historically, vitalism has been associated with conservatism and fascism in ways that are sometimes genealogically defensible, sometimes only with difficulty or not at all.”

“It seems to me that in vitalism, there are people who are anti-Christian, like Bronze Age Pervert, like the Nazis.”

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