Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution by Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution by Himmelfarb, Gertrude

Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution

In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century,...
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Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Language: English
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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution by Himmelfarb, Gertrude

Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution

$68.74
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution by Himmelfarb, Gertrude

Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution

$68.74
Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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

Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 02/01/1996
Pages: 523
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.03h x 4.98w x 1.52d
ISBN: 9781566631068


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/24/1996 pg. 28

About the Author
Gertrude Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has written extensively on Victorian England, including The De-Moralization of Society, Poverty and Compassion, The Idea of Poverty, On Liberty and Liberalism, and Victorian Minds. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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