1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968615103321

Autore

Ruse Michael

Titolo

Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003

ISBN

9780674266902

0674266900

9780674043015

0674043014

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

576.801

Soggetti

Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy

Teleology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Introduction 1. Two Thousand Years of Design 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 4. A Plurality of Problems 5. Charles Darwin 6. A Subject Too Profound 7. Darwinian against Darwinian 8. The Century of Evolutionism 9. Adaptation in Action 10. Theory and Test 11. Formalism Redux 12. From Function to Design 13. Design as Metaphor 14. Natural Theology Evolves 15. Turning Back the Clock Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

This history and exposition of Western thought about design in the natural world suggests directions for our thinking as we move into the 21st century. It contributes to the debate about the relationship between science and religion, and between evolution and its religious critics.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964229703321

Titolo

The sociology of art : a reader / / edited by Jeremy Tanner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-39329-6

1-134-39330-X

0-415-30884-4

1-280-04925-1

0-203-63364-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Classificazione

20.10

Altri autori (Persone)

TannerJeremy <1963->

Disciplina

306.4/7

Soggetti

Art and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Karl Marx; 2 Max Weber; 3 Georg Simmel; 4 Emile Durkheim; 5 Raymond Williams; 6 Howard S. Becker; 7 Pierre Bourdieu; 8 Arnold Hauser; 9 Natalie Heinich; 10 Norbert Elias; 11 David Brain; 12 Jürgen Habermas; 13 Pierre Bourdieu; 14 Paul DiMaggio; 15 Vera L. Zolberg; 16 Karl Mannheim; 17 Robert Witkin; 18 Talcott Parsons; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Provides students with an introduction to the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, using extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field.