The reception of Charles Darwin in Europe [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick

• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (742 p.)
• Disciplina: 576.82094
• Soggetto topico: Evolution (Biology) - Europe - History
• Altri autori: EngelsEve-Marie GlickThomas F
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Volume I; Volume II; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Timeline: European Reception of Charles Darwin; Editors' Introduction; 1 Darwin's Philosophical Revolution: Evolutionary Naturalism and First Reactions to his Theory; 2 Correspondence as a Medium of Reception and Appropriation; 3 Nation and Religion: The Debate about Darwinism in Ireland; 4 Under Darwin's Banner: Ernst Haeckel, Carl Gegenbaur and Evolutionary Morphology ; 5 Only 'Dreams from an Afternoon Nap'? Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the Foundation of Biological Anthropology in Germany 1860-75; 6 Darwin's Relevance for Nineteenth-Century Physics and Physicists: A Comparative Study; 7 Darwinism in Finland; 8 Darwinizing the Danes, 1859-1909; 9 The Introduction, Interpretation and Dissemination of Darwinism in Norway during the period 1860-90; 10 Darwin on Dutch Soil: The Early Reception of his Ideas in the Netherlands; 11 'Foggy and Contradictory': Evolutionary Theory in Belgium, 1859-1945 ; 12 Between Science and Ideology: The Reception of Darwin and Darwinism in the Czech Lands, 1859-1959; 13 Descent versus Extinction: The Reception of Darwinism in Estonia; 14 The Ideas of Charles Darwin in Lithuania: Contributions by Emigrant Authors during the Years of Occupation; 15 Struggle for or against Participation? How Darwinism Came to Partitioned Poland in the 1860's and early 1870's; 16 The Echo of Darwin in Mendel's Brno; Bibliography (Volume I); Abbreviations; 17 The Interminable Decline of Lamarckism in France ; 18 Darwin in a French Dress: Translating, Publishing and Supporting Darwin in Nineteenth-Century France 19 Many Darwinism's by Many Names: Darwinism and Nature in the Kingdoms of Italy; 20 Darwinism and Paleontology: Reception and Diffusion of the Theory of Evolution in Spain; 21 Darwin in Catalunya: From Catholic Intransigence to the Marketing of Darwin's Image; 22 Darwin and the Vatican: The Reception of Evolutionary Theories; 23 The Scientific Reception of Darwin's Work in Nineteenth-Century Hungary; 24 The Reception of Darwin in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Society ; 25 Notes on the Reception of Darwin's Theory in Romania 26 The Eclipse and Renaissance of Darwinism in German Biology (1900-1950); 27 The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Russia: 1920's to 1940's; 28 Darwinism and Dialectical Materialism in Soviet Russia; 29 Miquel Crusafont, Teilhard de Chardin and the Reception of the Synthetic Theory in Spain; Bibliography (Volume II); Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science with an extensive and varied reception in different countries and disciplines. His theory had a revolutionary impact not only on biology, but also on other natural sciences and the new social sciences. The term 'Darwinism', already popular in Darwin's lifetime, ranged across many different areas and ideological aspects, and his own ideas about the implications of evolution for human cognitive, emotional, social and ethical capacities were often interpreted in a way that did not mirror his own intentions. The implications for...
• Titolo autorizzato: The reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
• ISBN: 1-282-87549-3; 9786612875496; 1-4411-6662-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785488403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe