Galdós and Darwin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Galdós and Darwin write by T. E. Bell. This book was released on 2006. Galdós and Darwin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito Pérez Galdós. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito Pérez Galdós would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Galdós throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Galdós's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Galdós and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century. T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University.
The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe write by Eve-Marie Engels. This book was released on 2008-12-03. The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science with an extensive and varied reception in different countries and disciplines. His theory had a revolutionary impact not only on biology, but also on other natural sciences and the new social sciences. The term 'Darwinism', already popular in Darwin's lifetime, ranged across many different areas and ideological aspects, and his own ideas about the implications of evolution for human cognitive, emotional, social and ethical capacities were often interpreted in a way that did not mirror his own intentions. The implications for religious, philosophical and political issues and institutions remain as momentous today as in his own time. This volume conveys the many-sidedness of Darwin's reception and exhibit his far-reaching impact on our self- understanding as human beings.
Anarchism and eugenics
Anarchism and eugenics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anarchism and eugenics write by Richard Cleminson. This book was released on 2019-05-22. Anarchism and eugenics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a ‘scientific’ doctrine that sought to eliminate ‘dysgenics’ and champion the ‘fit’ as a means of ‘race’ survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements?
The Educated Woman
The Educated Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Educated Woman write by Katharina Rowold. This book was released on 2011-02-09. The Educated Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.
Translating Anarchy
Translating Anarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translating Anarchy write by Mark Bray. This book was released on 2013-09-27. Translating Anarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By “translating” their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment and collective needs, these anarchists sparked the most dynamic American social movement in decades. ,
