Author: V. Richter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230300448
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
Literature After Darwin
Author: V. Richter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230300448
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230300448
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind
Author: Angelique Richardson
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
‘What is emotion?’ pondered the young Charles Darwin in his notebooks. How were the emotions to be placed in an evolutionary framework? And what light might they shed on human-animal continuities? These were among the questions Darwin explored in his research, assisted both by an acute sense of observation and an extraordinary capacity for fellow feeling, not only with humans but with all animal life. After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind explores questions of mind, emotion and the moral sense which Darwin opened up through his research on the physical expression of emotions and the human–animal relation. It also examines the extent to which Darwin’s ideas were taken up by Victorian writers and popular culture, from George Eliot to the Daily News. Bringing together scholars from biology, literature, history, psychology, psychiatry and paediatrics, the volume provides an invaluable reassessment of Darwin’s contribution to a new understanding of the moral sense and emotional life, and considers the urgent scientific and ethical implications of his ideas today.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
‘What is emotion?’ pondered the young Charles Darwin in his notebooks. How were the emotions to be placed in an evolutionary framework? And what light might they shed on human-animal continuities? These were among the questions Darwin explored in his research, assisted both by an acute sense of observation and an extraordinary capacity for fellow feeling, not only with humans but with all animal life. After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind explores questions of mind, emotion and the moral sense which Darwin opened up through his research on the physical expression of emotions and the human–animal relation. It also examines the extent to which Darwin’s ideas were taken up by Victorian writers and popular culture, from George Eliot to the Daily News. Bringing together scholars from biology, literature, history, psychology, psychiatry and paediatrics, the volume provides an invaluable reassessment of Darwin’s contribution to a new understanding of the moral sense and emotional life, and considers the urgent scientific and ethical implications of his ideas today.
Philosophy After Darwin
Author: Michael Ruse
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691135533
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
An anthology of essential writings that cover some of the most influential ideas about the philosophical implications of Darwinism, since the publication of "On the Origin of Species".
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691135533
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
An anthology of essential writings that cover some of the most influential ideas about the philosophical implications of Darwinism, since the publication of "On the Origin of Species".
After Darwin
Author: Devin Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009181173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book explores the philosophy and writings of Charles Darwin and their contribution to theories of philosophy, evolution, and beauty.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009181173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book explores the philosophy and writings of Charles Darwin and their contribution to theories of philosophy, evolution, and beauty.
Literary Darwinism
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415970143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415970143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Animal Fables After Darwin
Author: Chris Danta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781108449076
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781108449076
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"--
Reading Genesis After Darwin
Author: Stephen C. Barton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195383354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
First, the authors explore how the scriptures were interpreted before the time of Darwin. Part II presents essays on the real history of the Darwin controversies, exploding the myths about this period. The final chapter deals with the rise of creationism in its current social context.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195383354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
First, the authors explore how the scriptures were interpreted before the time of Darwin. Part II presents essays on the real history of the Darwin controversies, exploding the myths about this period. The final chapter deals with the rise of creationism in its current social context.
Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature
Author: Jessica L. Straley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107127521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
An interdisciplinary study that explores the impact of evolutionary theory on Victorian children's literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107127521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
An interdisciplinary study that explores the impact of evolutionary theory on Victorian children's literature.
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340414
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340414
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.
Charles and Emma
Author: Deborah Heiligman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429934956
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates. Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers. Charles and Emma is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429934956
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates. Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers. Charles and Emma is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.