Abstract:Contents: Introduction: cultural reflections on Darwin and their historical evolution, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts Part 1 The Cultural Evolution of Darwin's Thought: 'I differ widely fro...Contents: Introduction: cultural reflections on Darwin and their historical evolution, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts Part 1 The Cultural Evolution of Darwin's Thought: 'I differ widely from you': Darwin, Galton and the culture of eugenics, Angelique Richardson Evolution, heredity and visuality: reading faces with Thomas Hardy, Susanne Scholz 'How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!': Darwin's 'ape theory' and its traces in Victorian children's magazines, Jochen Petzold Gender trouble as monkey business: changing roles of simian characters in literature and film between 1870 and 1930, Julika Griem. Part 2 Darwin's Cultural Resonance Today: Neo-Victorian Darwin: representations of the 19th-century scientist, naturalist and explorer in 21st-century women's writing, Ann Heilmann (Mis-)representations of Darwin's Origin and evolutionary master narratives in The Sea (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), Felix C.H. Sprang Evolution for better or for worse? Science fiction literature and film and the public debate on the future of humanity, Angela Schwarz. Part 3 Darwin as 'Pop Star' of Contemporary Theory: Displacing humans, reconfiguring Darwin in contemporary culture and theory, Virginia Richter Ordering Darwin: evolution and normativity, Nils Wilkinson The limits of sociobiology: is there a sociobiological explanation of culture?, Matthias Gutmann 'Survival of the fittest' in Darwin metaphysics: tautology or testable theory?, Momme von Sydow Index.Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-04-08
Language: en
Type: book
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