Darwin in Italy
Author: Giuliano Pancaldi
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
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The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
Author: Thomas F. Glick
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 776
ISBN-13: 1780937229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes an extensive timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and bibliographies of major translations in each country.
The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925
Author: Andrea Sartori
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-11-22
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 3031188500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and reworked a scientific vocabulary to write about the contradictions and the contrasting tensions of Italy’s cultural and political-economic modernization. It focuses, above all, on novels by Italo Svevo, Federico De Roberto and Luigi Pirandello. The analysis centers on such topics as the struggle against adverse social conditions in capitalistic society, the risk of failing to survive the struggle itself, the adaptive issues of individuals uprooted from their family and work environments, the concerns about the heredity of maladapted characters. Accordingly, the book also argues that the hybridization and variation of both narrative forms and collective mindsets describes the modernist awareness of the cultural complexity experienced in Italy and Europe at this time.
The Comparative Reception of Darwinism
Author: Thomas F. Glick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-09-24
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 0226299775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The majority of the chapters deal with the reception accorded Darwin's work in specific countries: England, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and the Arab countries. Several chapters, however, also investigate the response to Darwinism made by specific social circles--such as social scientists in Russia and the United States
The Science of the Child in Liberal Italy
Author: Luisa Tasca
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 3031657780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
Author: Eve-Marie Engels
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 0826458335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond this pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. This book is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes a complete timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and bibliographies of major translations in each country.
The Annotated Origin
Author: Darwin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-05-30
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780674032811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history of science. The Annotated Origin is a facsimile of the first edition of 1859, and is accompanied by James T. Costa’s marginal annotations, drawing on his extensive experience with Darwin’s ideas in the field, lab, and classroom.
What Darwin Got Wrong
Author: Jerry Fodor
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011-02-24
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1847651909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory. They do not deny Darwin's status as an outstanding scientist but question the inferences he drew from his observations. Combining the results of cutting-edge work in experimental biology with crystal-clear philosophical argument they mount a devastating critique of the central tenets of Darwin's account of the origin of species. The logic underlying natural selection is the survival of the fittest under changing environmental pressure. This logic, they argue, is mistaken. They back up the claim with evidence of what actually happens in nature. This is a rare achievement - the short book that is likely to make a great deal of difference to a very large subject. What Darwin Got Wrong will be controversial. The authors' arguments will reverberate through the scientific world. At the very least they will transform the debate about evolution.
The Darwinian Heritage
Author: David Kohn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 1152
ISBN-13: 1400854717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresenting the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Tragic Sense of Life
Author: Robert J. Richards
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 0226712192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin’s foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards’s intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written, as well as a moving account of Haeckel’s eventful life.
