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Author: Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Ingram
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the impact of Darwin on thinkers throughout the gilded Age and the Progressive era, 'Social Darwinism' shows how a politically neutral scientific theory has been adapted with skillful rhetoric to contradictory purposes.
Author: Robert Bannister
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-06-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 143990605X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAttempts to assess the role played by Darwinian ideas in the writings of English-speaking social theorists.
Author: Mike Hawkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-03-13
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521574341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the ideological influence of Social Darwinists in Europe and America.
Author: Vladimir Tikhonov
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-07-14
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9004190139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book deals with the influences Social Darwinism exerted upon Korea’s modern ideologies in their formative period - especially nationalism – after its introduction to Korea in 1883 and before Korea’s annexation by Japan in 1910. It shows that the belief in the “survival of the fittest” as the overarching cosmic and social principle constituted the main underpinning for the modernity discourses in Korea in the 1890s-1900s. Unlike the dominant ideology of traditional Korea, Neo-Confucianism, which was largely promoted by the scholar-official elite, Social Darwinism appealed to the modern intellectuals, but also to the entrepreneurs, providing the justification for their profit-seeking activities as part of the “national survival” project. As an ideology of Korea’s nascent capitalism, Social Darwinism in Korea could, however, hardly be called a liberal creed: it clearly prioritized “national survival” over individual rights and interests.
Author: Jeffrey O'Connell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781108793803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Element is a philosophical history of Social Darwinism. It begins by discussing the meaning of the term, moving then to its origins, paying particular attention to whether it is Charles Darwin or Herbert Spencer who is the true father of the idea. It gives an exposition of early thinking on the subject, covering Darwin and Spencer themselves and then on to Social Darwinism as found in American thought, with special emphasis on Andrew Carnegie, and Germany with special emphasis on Friedrich von Bernhardi. Attention is also paid to outliers, notably the Englishman Alfred Russel Wallace, the Russian Peter Kropotkin, and the German Friedrich Nietzsche. From here we move into the twentieth century looking at Adolf Hitler - hardly a regular Social Darwinian given he did not believe in evolution - and in the Anglophone world, Julian Huxley and Edward O. Wilson, who reflected the concerns of their society.
Author: Charles Darwin
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Dickens
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Darwinism is the extension of Darwin's evolutionary ideas to human society. Over the past two centuries it has been argued that the fittest in terms of physical and mental prowess are most likely to survive and reproduce. It has also been suggested that the increasingly complex structure of human society mirrors the increasing complexity of nature. This highly original text examines whether these extensions from nature to society are justified, and considers how dangerous they may be in implying the systematic neglect - or even destruction - of the least fit. It asks what, in any case, is fitness as applied to human beings? It also questions whether human nature is constrained by modern society and whether people evolved as essentially competitive or collaborative. Written in a clear and accessible style, with text boxes to explain key ideas and little or no biological knowledge required of the reader, this book suggests a new way in which evolutionary thought and social theory can be combined
Author: David Paul Crook
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780820481388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all know that Darwin's theory played a vital role in genetic engineering. This book explores the social origins, showing people how metaphorically sat upon "coat-tails" to further their own campaigns, who in the end try to justify everything starting from capilatism right down to the World War II. This book provides essays that will enhance our knowledge about the way we look at genetic engineering.
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 964
ISBN-13: 1400820065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful. This is especially true of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin's second most important work. This edition is a facsimile reprint of the first printing of the first edition (1871), not previously available in paperback. The work is divided into two parts. Part One marshals behavioral and morphological evidence to argue that humans evolved from other animals. Darwin shoes that human mental and emotional capacities, far from making human beings unique, are evidence of an animal origin and evolutionary development. Part Two is an extended discussion of the differences between the sexes of many species and how they arose as a result of selection. Here Darwin lays the foundation for much contemporary research by arguing that many characteristics of animals have evolved not in response to the selective pressures exerted by their physical and biological environment, but rather to confer an advantage in sexual competition. These two themes are drawn together in two final chapters on the role of sexual selection in humans. In their Introduction, Professors Bonner and May discuss the place of The Descent in its own time and relation to current work in biology and other disciplines.
Author: Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0226346900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA theoretical study dealing chiefly with matters of definition and clarification of terms and concepts involved in using Darwinian notions to model social phenomena.
