Politics and Neo-Darwinism : and other essays / Tom Rubens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubens, Tom.

Series:

Societas (Imprint Academic (Firm))

Societas : essays in political and cultural criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social Darwinism.

Social evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

[United Kingdom] : Andrews, 2012.

Summary:

This collection of essays is eclectic, covering certain political, ethical, cultural, and philosophical topics. But running through all the material is the evolutionary-naturalistic perspective stated in the opening essay, which gives the book its title. Another emphatic feature is a focus on the Western cultural outlook, as the context in which the large number of topics is viewed. This focus is important as a way of re-affirming the distinctive character of Western intellectual and cultura...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright Page; Prefatory Note; Body Matter; Section I; 1. Politics & Neo-Darwinism; 2. Shakespeare & Sartre: The Defence of Political Violence; 3. Economic Hardship in Shakespeare's Plays; 4. Intellectual Foci in British Society since 1945; 5. Liberal Politics & Literature; 6. The Idea of a Classless Society; 7. Questions Facing Socialism as a Cultural Outlook; 8. The Welfare State Liberal; Section II; 9. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity; 10. Anti-Bourgeois Attitudes in the West; 11. French Rationality in the 18th Century

12. Mental Perspectives in the West13. Genius & Changes in Social Context; 14. Change & Continuity in Western Intellectual Culture; 15. Philosophy's Position in Contemporary Western Society; Section III; 16. The Aesthetic & the Moral; 17. An Inescapable Duality; 18. Scientific & Poetic Modes of Describing Physical Objects in the World; 19. The Recognition of Causality; 20. Mechanistic & Teleological Causality; 21. Isaiah Berlin on Determinism: A Reply; 22. Essence, Existence, & Identity; 23. Emotivism: The Irreducibility of Feeling-Positions; 24. Kantianism & ...

25. The Idea of Power & the Secular Sense of Awe26. The Uses of the Term 'Materialism'; 27. Schopenhauer & Sartre; 28. Spinoza vs. Kant; 29. Morality & the Doctrine of Progressive Historicism; 30. Value-Positions in Dawkins & Darwin; Back Matter; Also Available from Andrews UK and Imprint Academic

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-69549-9

1-84540-357-6

OCLC:

793996879