Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to HitlerBy the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had disenchanted the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of wholeness heal what the old science of the machine had wrought? Some contemporary scientists thought it could. These years saw the spread of a new, holistic science designed to nourish the heart as well as the head, to