The Seductions Of Darwin
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Author | : Matthew Rampley |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2017-01-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271079002 |
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The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these questions by exploring key areas where Darwinism, neuroscience, and art history intersect. Taking a scientific approach to understanding art has led to novel and provocative ideas about its origins, the basis of aesthetic experience, and the nature of research into art and the humanities. Rampley’s inquiry examines models of artistic development, the theories and development of aesthetic response, and ideas about brain processes underlying creative work. He considers the validity of the arguments put forward by advocates of evolutionary and neuroscientific analysis, as well as its value as a way of understanding art and culture. With the goal of bridging the divide between science and culture, Rampley advocates for wider recognition of the human motivations that drive inquiry of all types, and he argues that our engagement with art can never be encapsulated in a single notion of scientific knowledge. Engaging and compelling, The Seductions of Darwin is a rewarding look at the identity and development of art history and its complicated ties to the world of scientific thought.
Author | : Adrian Desmond |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1159 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 024133621X |
Download The Descent of Man Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond. In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by 'sexual selection' - Darwin's provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human. In their introduction, James Moore and Adrian Desmond, acclaimed biographers of Charles Darwin, call for a radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery. The text is the second and definitive edition and this volume also contains suggestions for further reading, a chronology and biographical sketches of prominent individuals mentioned. Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs. If you enjoyed The Descent of Man, you might like Darwin's On the Origin of Species, also available in Penguin Classics.
Author | : Thomas F. Glick |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1780937229 |
Download The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes an extensive timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and bibliographies of major translations in each country.
Author | : Daniel C. Dennett |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1439126291 |
Download Darwin's Dangerous Idea Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.
Author | : Rebecca Stott |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1400069378 |
Download Darwin's Ghosts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Citing an 1859 letter that accused Charles Darwin of failing to acknowledge his scientific predecessors, a chronicle of the collective history of evolution dedicates each chapter to an evolutionary thinker, from Aristotle and da Vinci to Denis Diderot to the naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes. 20,000 first printing.
Author | : Charles Darwin |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Origin of Species Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Origin of Species (the full title being, 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life'), is a scientific work by Charles Darwin, published on 24 November 1859. It is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, introducing the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. The book includes evidence that Darwin had collected on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings.
Author | : Charles Darwin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780192834386 |
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A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'.
Author | : Joshua Russell |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2021-04-09 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3030653684 |
Download Queer Ecopedagogies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume builds on the momentum surrounding queer work within environmental education, while also encouraging new connections between environmental education research and the growing bodies of literature dedicated to queer deconstructions of categories such as “nature,” “environment,” and “animal.” The book is composed of submissions that engage with existing literature from queer ecology, queer theory, and various explorations of sexuality and gender within the context of human-animal-nature relationships. The book deepens and diversifies environmental education by providing new theoretical and methodological insights for scholarship and practice across a variety of educational contexts. Queer pedagogies provide important critical points of view for educators who seek broader goals centred around social and ecological justice by encouraging counter-hegemonic views of bodies, nature, and community. The scope of this book is multi- or interdisciplinary in order to cast a wide net around what kinds of spaces, relationships, and practices are considered educational, pedagogical, or curricular. The volume includes chapters that are conceptual, theoretical, and empirical.
Author | : Evelleen Richards |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022643690X |
Download Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Sexual selection, or the struggle for mates, was of considerable strategic importance to Darwin s theory of evolution as he first outlined it in the "Origin of Species," and later, in the "Descent of Man," it took on a much wider role. There, Darwin s exhaustive elaboration of sexual selection throughout the animal kingdom was directed to substantiating his view that human racial and sexual differences, not just physical differences but certain mental and moral differences, had evolved primarily through the action of sexual selection. It was the culmination of a lifetime of intellectual effort and commitment. Yet even though he argued its validity with a great array of critics, sexual selection went into abeyance with Darwin s death, not to be revived until late in the twentieth century, and even today it remains a controversial theory. In unfurling the history of sexual selection, Evelleen Richards brings to vivid life Darwin the man, not the myth, and the social and intellectual roots of his theory building."
Author | : Brendan Wallace |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2013-07-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 184540579X |
Download Getting Darwin Wrong Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Brendan Wallace, with a background in psychology, demonstrates that the key claims of Evolutionary Psychology (EP), popularised by Steven Pinker and others, are based on the 'brain is a digital computer' argument. He then argues that as we now know this model of the brain will not work, therefore EP won't work either, since it is based on a fallacious view of the mind/brain. The book, which is written in a reader friendly but rigorous style, is a timely assault on one of the most fashionable philosophies of mind currently 'out there'.