"George Levine has thought deeply about Darwinism, its cultural history, and its implications for moral and spiritual values. "Darwin Loves You" should be read by everyone who thinks that their values are threatened by evolutionary theory."--David Sloan Wilson, author of "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society" and "How to be a Good Evolutionist"
""Darwin Loves You" is a very important work that deserves to be read by many people well outside the narrow circle of Darwin specialists. First, it is a brilliant account of how a science is taken up and used for diverse cultural ends, far beyond the intention of the author and the content of the text. Second, it is crucially relevant to the present day with the horrifying rise of fundamentalist religion in America and abroad. It shows how science gets misused and misunderstood in dangerous ways by fanatics. Third, and most important of all, it introduces us to a man who is deeply in love with his subject, wanting to engage the reader. One learns here truly why scholarship is such a joyful activity."--Michael Ruse, author of "The Evolution-Creation Struggle"
"This is a rich and multilayered argument for a wider appreciation of a 'kinder, gentler' Darwin. It examines many of the ways inwhich Darwin's writings have been appropriated by later social Darwinist and eugenicist thought. Levine makes a cogent defence of the practice of close reading both Darwin and his many commentators. The result is a subtle but powerful argument about the way in which distinctive strands of Darwin's intellectual and personal identity--as romantic materialist and emotional subject--need to be appreciated as a possible resource of re-enchantment, overturning pessimistic, rationalistic, and technological disenchantment."--David Amigoni, Keele University, coeditor of "Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species": New Interdisciplinary Essays"
"Passionate, erudite, and polemical, "Darwin Loves You" draws its arguments from a heady array of writers and philosophers. This is a book to think with."--Rebecca Stott, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, author of "Darwin and the Barnacle"
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"George Levine has thought deeply about Darwinism, its cultural history, and its implications for moral and spiritual values. "Darwin Loves You" should be read by everyone who thinks that their values are threatened by evolutionary theory."--David Sloan Wilson, author of "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society" and "How to be a Good Evolutionist"
""Darwin Loves You" is a very important work that deserves to be read by many people well outside the narrow circle of Darwin specialists. First, it is a brilliant account of how a science is taken up and used for diverse cultural ends, far beyond the intention of the author and the content of the text. Second, it is crucially relevant to the present day with the horrifying rise of fundamentalist religion in America and abroad. It shows how science gets misused and misunderstood in dangerous ways by fanatics. Third, and most important of all, it introduces us to a man who is deeply in love with his subject, wanting to engage the reader. One learns here truly why scholarship is such a joyful activity."--Michael Ruse, author of "The Evolution-Creation Struggle"
"This is a rich and multilayered argument for a wider appreciation of a 'kinder, gentler' Darwin. It examines many of the ways inwhich Darwin's writings have been appropriated by later social Darwinist and eugenicist thought. Levine makes a cogent defence of the practice of close reading both Darwin and his many commentators. The result is a subtle but powerful argument about the way in which distinctive strands of Darwin's intellectual and personal identity--as romantic materialist and emotional subject--need to be appreciated as a possible resource of re-enchantment, overturning pessimistic, rationalistic, and technological disenchantment."--David Amigoni, Keele University, coeditor of "Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species": New Interdisciplinary Essays"
"Passionate, erudite, and polemical, "Darwin Loves You" draws its arguments from a heady array of writers and philosophers. This is a book to think with."--Rebecca Stott, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, author of "Darwin and the Barnacle"
Imprint | Princeton University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 2008 |
Authors | George Levine |
Dimensions | 237 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 304 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-13639-4 |
Barcode | 9780691136394 |
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LSN | 0-691-13639-4 |