کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7552395 1490514 2015 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A good Darwinian? Winwood Reade and the making of a late Victorian evolutionary epic
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
داروین خوبی؟ وینوود رید و ساختن حماسه تکاملی اواخر ویکتوریا
کلمات کلیدی
وینوود رید، داروینیسم، مردم شناسی، تاریخ جهانی، حماسه تکامل،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی
In 1871 the travel writer and anthropologist W. Winwood Reade (1838-1875) was inspired by his correspondence with Darwin to turn his narrow ethnological research on West African tribes into the broadest history imaginable, one that would show Darwin's great principle of natural selection at work throughout the evolutionary history of humanity, stretching back to the origins of the universe itself. But when Martyrdom of Man was published in 1872, Reade confessed that Darwin would not likely find him a very good Darwinian, as he was unable to show that natural selection was anything more than a secondary law that arranges all details. When it came to historicising humans within the sweeping history of all creation, Reade argued that the primary law was that of development, a less contentious theory of human evolution that was better suited to Reade's progressive and teleological history of life. By focussing on the extensive correspondence between Reade and Darwin, this paper reconstructs the attempt to make an explicitly Darwinian evolutionary epic in order to shed light on the moral and aesthetic demands that worked to give shape to Victorian efforts to historicise humans within a vastly expanding timeframe.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - Volume 51, June 2015, Pages 44-52
نویسندگان
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