Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 219-238

Kant's organicism -- Generation and the task of classification -- Mechanism and the principle of life -- Leibniz's organic machines -- Buffon's natural history and the founding of organicism -- Hales and the physiology of plants -- Buffon the French Newtonian -- Maupertuis, Buffon, and the problem of form -- Natural history and the history of nature -- Kant and the problem of origin -- Kant's eclecticism -- Matter and cosmos -- The spectacle of life -- The rebirth of metaphysics -- A philosophy is born -- From original acquisition to the epigenesis of knowledge -- Concepts and objects: Kant's letter to Herz, 1772.

From the unity of reason to the unity of race -- The unity of reason -- The unity of race -- A germ of reason and a germ for race -- Empirical psychology in Tetens and Kant -- Epigenesis and evolution in Tetens's philosophical essays -- From empirical psychology to a transcendental theory of imagination -- Transcendental philosophy and the physiology of pure reason -- Kant's architectonic: system and organism in the Critique of pure reason -- The doctrine of method: the bauplan of the system -- The transcendental deduction: the bauplan at work -- Organic logic: a cautionary tale -- Epilogue: a daring adventure of reason.