"The serious Darwinist will want to possess the two notebooks with Barrett's notes and also a section including 'Old and useless Notes about the moral sense & some metaphysical points' ('useless' to Darwin in the 1850s, but not to us)." -Isis"
First published in 1974 as a companion volume to Howard E. Gruber's "Darwin on Man", Paul H. Barrett's transcriptions of Darwin's M and N notebooks served to shed new light on the evolutionist's methods and motivation. Writing in the "New York Times Book Review", Stephen Jay Gould explained: "Darwin kept [these notebooks] primarily in 1838, when he was 29 years old. In them, he recorded his early conviction of evolutionary continuity between humans and all other animals...These notebooks display all the features of humanistic intellect that his detractors denied. We find erudition in his comments on Plato, Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Whewell, Burke, Montaigne, Lessing and Spencer...We appreciate an artistic bent in his delight with nature and her prophet Wordsworth...We grasp the breadth of his bold attempt to clothe all human thought and behaviour in a new evolutionary garb...Charles Darwin was reconstructing the world and he knew exactly what he was doing."
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First published in 1974 as a companion volume to "Darwin on Man", this book includes the author's transcriptions of Darwin's M and N notebooks that sheds new light on the evolutionist's methods and motivation.
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"The serious Darwinist will want to possess the two notebooks with Barrett's notes and also a section including 'Old and useless Notes about the moral sense & some metaphysical points' ('useless' to Darwin in the 1850s, but not to us)." -Isis"
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ISBN
9780226136592
Publisert
2011-12-15
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Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
252
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