Title:
Darwin and the Darwinian revolution / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Author:
Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Publication Information:
Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1996.
Call Number:
QH31.D2 H57 1996
Abstract:
In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. Touching on biography, history, and philosophy, she traces the origins and development of Darwin's views against the opinions of his time; assesses the influences on him; and shows what he intended his theory to mean, what his readers took it to mean,
And what it has in fact meant. By such a route Ms. Himmelfarb recaptures "a sense of how a scientist, with the most innocent of intentions and the best of faith, can give birth to a theory that has an ancestry and a posterity of which he may be ignorant and a life of its own over which he has no control."
Edition:
1st Elephant pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9781566631068
Physical Description:
x, 510 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Elephant paperbacks."
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1959.
Contents:
1. Childhood and Youth -- 2. Cambridge -- 3. The Voyage of the Beagle -- 4. Geology: Metaphysics and Method -- 5. Intimations of the Origin -- 6. Portrait of the Scientist -- 7. Genesis of the Theory -- 8. Progenitors of the Theory -- 9. Progress, Digression, and Collaboration -- 10. Climate of Opinion on the Eve of the Origin -- 11. The Publication of the Origin -- 12. The Darwinian Party -- 13. The Anti-Darwinian Party -- 14. Progress of the Controversy -- 15. The Argument of the Origin -- 16. Mechanism and Teleology -- 17. The Origin of Man -- 18. Darwinism, Religion, and Morality -- 19. Darwinism, Politics, and Society -- 20. The Conservative Revolution.
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