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Darwin and the making of sexual selection
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ISBN: 9780226436906 022643690X 9780226437064 022643706X Year: 2017 Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago press,

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Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it explained things that natural selection could not and offered a naturalistic, as opposed to divine, account of beauty and its perception. Only now, with Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection, do we have a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of Darwin's path to its formulation—one that shows the man, rather than the myth, and examines both the social and intellectual roots of Darwin's theory. Drawing on the minutiae of his unpublished notes, annotations in his personal library, and his extensive correspondence, Evelleen Richards offers a richly detailed, multilayered history. Her fine-grained analysis comprehends the extraordinarily wide range of Darwin's sources and disentangles the complexity of theory, practice, and analogy that went into the making of sexual selection. Richards deftly explores the narrative strands of this history and vividly brings to life the chief characters involved. A true milestone in the history of science, Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection illuminates the social and cultural contingencies of the shaping of an important—if controversial—biological concept that is back in play in current evolutionary theory.


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Darwin becomes art : aesthetic vision in the wake of Darwin: 1870-1920
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ISBN: 940121090X 9789401210904 9042038470 9789042038479 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi,

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This book analyses Darwin’s influence on art and the effect of his science on experiences of beauty. The first chapter discusses Darwin’s great forerunner, Alexander von Humboldt, and his contribution to thinking about the relationship between science and beauty. The second examines the public reception of Darwin in Germany, focusing on the German Naturalists and the important scientific controversies which Darwin’s idea provoked. It shows the political use of science (Häckel and Virchow) and foreshadows present-day debates between Darwinism and Creationism, science and an idealized view of nature. Against this background the book shows the effect of Darwin on three important fields: the perception of landscape in major writers (Zola, Lawrence, Jacobsen, Benn and Brecht) before 1920; the portrayal of wild life, as revealed in bird-painting; and the understanding of the relationship between the human body and character. The book brings together for the first time Darwin’s The Expression of Emotion with the work of major European novelists (Eliot, Gutzkow and Freytag), focusing on the place of the older understandings contained in physiognomy, which Darwin challenged, on the portrayal of ethnicity, and on debates about acting, including for the young Brecht.


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Fichte trifft Darwin, Luhmann und Derrida : Die Bestimmung des Menschen in differenztheoretischer Rekonstruktion und im Kontext der Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo
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ISBN: 9789042034341 9042034343 9786613366399 9401207216 1283366398 9789401207218 9781283366397 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,

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Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt eine neue Lesart von Johann Gottlieb Fichtes populärer Schrift “Die Bestimmung des Menschen” (1800) vor, deren wesentliche Aussagen mit zentralen Thesen zeitgenössischer differenztheoretischer Theorieentwürfe, wie etwa dem erkenntnistheoretischen Konstruktivismus Niklas Luhmanns, der Dekonstruktion Jacques Derridas und – mit Einschränkungen – der modernen Evolutionstheorie in der Folge Charles Darwins, in Beziehung gesetzt und konfrontiert werden. In kritischer sowie affirmativer Auseinandersetzung mit gegenwärtigen Theorieansätzen erweist sich so die Anschluss- und Leistungsfähigkeit sowie die immer währende Aktualität des Fichteschen Denkens. Ein abschließender Rückblick bringt die populärphilosophischen Überlegungen Fichtes mit dessen wissenschaftlichen Ausführungen der 1798/99 vorgetragenen Vorlesungen über die “Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo” in Verbindung und ordnet sie vor deren Hintergrund in die Arbeit Fichtes in Jena von 1794 bis 1799 ein. Auf diese Weise wird schließlich die andauernde Bedeutung der Wissenschaftslehre Fichtes für die Philosophie des 21. Jahrhunderts und darüber hinaus offenbar.

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