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Retrieving Darwin's Revolutionary Idea: The Reluctant Radical

Retrieving Darwin's Revolutionary Idea: The Reluctant Radical

          
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Darwin's discovery of evolution is as celebrated as Galileo's laws of motion or Newton's discovery of gravity. But this was only half the story. Not content to prove that evolution had happened, Darwin sought to convey its full humbling implications. Thus he formulated the theory of natural selection. Contrary to popular belief, this theory ran exactly counter to scientific reason and was consequently rejected by the scientific community of the time. This wasn’t the only reason Darwin’s critics recoiled. His theory robbed the ruling orders of any easy recourse to consolatory tales of nature’s harmony and design. The fate of his ideas, for the time being at least, would be left to the heretics he inspired in other domains. Darwin's radical thought anticipated Nietzsche's Godless philosophy, Marx's class-based economics and Freud's psychological theories of the unconscious. It would take a further 80 years for Darwinism to become accepted as mainstream science, but it came at the expense of its counter-scientific core. For the remainder of the twentieth century a popularized Darwinism would become the touchstone for backlash movements in philosophy, economics and psychology—disciplines he once so radicalized. This is the story of how the most revolutionary idea of the nineteenth century became the most reactionary idea of the twentieth.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part 1: From Science to Counter-Science 1.“I think!”: Science & the Union of Nature & Thought 2. “I can’t think!”: Counter-Science & the Unthought 3. A Conflictual Science: Darwin’s Theory of Evolution & Natural Selection Part 2: The Reluctant Radical 4. The Death of God: Darwin’s Adaptation to an Imperfect Science 5. The Dismal Science: Darwin’s Struggle for a Ruling Interpretation 6. Specious Origins: Darwin’s Selections in an Age of Narcissism and Doubt Part 3: Darwin’s Century: From Crisis to Reaction 7. A Crisis of Representation: Representations of Evolution 1859– 1929 8. Reaction and Containment: Darwinian Interpretations 1929– 2009 Conclusion: Recovering the Unthought


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781793632494
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Weight: 612 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1793632499
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jul 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Reluctant Radical
  • Width: 160 mm


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