(Dis)entangling Darwin : cross-disciplinary reflections on the man and his legacy / edited by Sara Graca da Silva, Fatima Vieira and Jorge Bastos da Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silva, Sara Graça da.

Vieira, Fátima.

Silva, Jorge Miguel Bastos da, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Darwin, Charles.

Naturalists--England--Biography.

Naturalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Other Title:

Disentangling Darwin

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Darwin's curiosity had a remarkable childlike enthusiasm driven by an almost compulsive appetite for a constant process of discovery, which he never satiated despite his many voyages. He would puzzle about the smallest things, from the wonders of barnacles to the different shapes, colours and textures of the beetles which he obsessively collected, from flowers and stems to birds, music and language, and would dedicate years to understanding the potential significance of everything he ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE; PART I; THE "PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISM" OF SPINOZA AND DARWIN; NEW LANDSCAPES AND NEW EYES; DARWIN'S BOTANICALWORK; THE LONG REACH OF DARWIN'S THOUGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANS; DARWIN, MARAÑÓN, HIRSCHFELD; THE "ECLIPSE OF DARWINISM" IN PORTUGAL; A GLOBAL FAMILY OF MAN; RECONSTRUCTING THE TREE OF LIFE; PART II; THE LAW OF SEXUAL SELECTION IN EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S THE COMING RACE (1871); (DIS)ENTANGLING SCIENTIFIC AND POETIC DISCOURSE; EVOLUTION AND ETHICS IN TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (1891)

THE INFLUENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN ON JOHN STEINBECKSTAGING DARWIN; EPILOGUE; THE LAY OF THE TRILOBITE (1885); INDEX

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ISBN:

1-4438-3823-3

OCLC:

823721235