Author: Charles Hodge
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: darwinism
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2009-10-03
List price: $22.75
ISBN-10: 1115427245
ISBN-13: 9781115427241

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong Subjects: Evolution Religion / Christianity / Literature

Author: Michael Ruse
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: discontents, darwinism
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2006-07-31
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 052182947X
ISBN-13: 9780521829472

This book presents an ardent defense of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution against its many critics by one of the leading experts on this subject. Offering a clear and comprehensive exposition of the thinking of Darwin, Michael Ruse brings the story up to day, examining important issues such as the origins of life, the fossil record, the mechanism of natural selection, and rival theories such as punctuated equilibrium, the story of human evolution (including the recently found "hobbits," Homo floresiensis), fraud in biological science, literary approaches to evolution, and the philosop

Author: Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: america, comes, darwinism
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-11-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0674193121
ISBN-13: 9780674193123

In 1997, even as Pope John Paul II was conceding that evolution was "more than just a theory," local school boards and state legislatures were still wrangling over the teaching of origins--and nearly half of all Americans polled believed in the recent special creation of the first humans. Why do so many Americans still resist the ideas laid out by Darwin in On the Origin of Species? Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Ronald Numbers gets to the heart of this question. Judiciously assessing the facts, Numbers refutes a host of widespread misconceptions: about

Author: John Richardso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: darwinism, new, nietzsche
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-09-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195380290
ISBN-13: 9780195380293

Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin. He read extensively in German and British Darwinists, and his own works dealt often with such obvious Darwinian themes as struggle and evolution. Yet most of what Nietzsche said about Darwin was hostile: he sharply attacked many of his ideas, and often slurred Darwin himself as "mediocre." So most readers of Nietzsche have inferred that he must have cast Darwin quite aside.But in fact, John Richardson argues, Nietzsche was deeply and pervasively influenced by Darwin. He stressed his disagreements, but was silent about several core

Author: John Richardson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: darwinism, new, nietzsche
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-10-14
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195171039
ISBN-13: 9780195171037

Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin. He read extensively in German and British Darwinists, and his own works dealt often with such obvious Darwinian themes as struggle and evolution. Yet most of what Nietzsche said about Darwin was hostile: he sharply attacked many of his ideas, and often slurred Darwin himself as mediocre. So most readers of Nietzsche have inferred that he must have cast Darwin quite aside. But in fact, John Richardson argues, Nietzsche was deeply and pervasively influenced by Darwin. He stressed his disagreements, but was silent about several core p

Author: Thomas F. Glick
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: darwinism, reception, comparative
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 1988-09-24
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0226299775
ISBN-13: 9780226299778

The reaction to Darwin’s Origin of Species varied in many countries according to the roles played by national scientific institutions and traditions and the attitudes of religious and political groups. The contributors to this volume, including M. J. S. Hodge, David Hull, and Roberto Moreno, gathered in 1972 at an international conference on the comparative reception of Darwinism. Their essays look at early pro- and anti-Darwinism arguments, and three additional comparative essays and appendices add a larger perspective. For this paperback edition, Thomas F. Glick has added a new preface

Author: Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: thought, american, darwinism, social
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1992-09-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0807055034
ISBN-13: 9780807055038

Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of laissez-faire modern industrial society. Others such as William James and John Dewey argued that human planning was needed to direct social development and improve upon the natural order. Hofstadter