Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution

出版者:Ivan R. Dee

作者:Gertrude Himmelfarb

页数:526

出版时间:1996-2-1

价格:GBP 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781566631068

图书标签:美国科学施特劳斯学派

In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. Touching on biography, history, and philosophy, she traces the origins and development of Darwin's views against the opinions of his time; assesses the influences on him; and shows what he intended his theory to mean, what his readers took it to mean, and what it has in fact meant. By such a route Ms. Himmelfarb recaptures 'a sense of how a scientist, with the most innocent of intentions and the best of faith, can give birth to a theory that has an ancestry and a posterity of which he may be ignorant and a life of its own over which he has no control. 'A thorough and masterly book punctuated with a delicate sense of humor...Until he has read, marked, learnt and inwardly digested this authoritative volume, no one should presume henceforth to speak on Darwin and Darwinism.' Times Literary Supplement 'An illuminating contribution...a dramatic story.'_Yale Review 'Absorbing, well written, and splendidly organized.'_I. Bernard Cohen