Darwinism, War and History: The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World WarThis book challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of "peace biology," whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world prior to 1919, this study throws important new light on militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought. |
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... determinism ? This book examines these issues , tracing the historical debate that raged over the biological causes and effects of war between the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 and World War I. It reconstructs the ...
... determinism ? This book examines these issues , tracing the historical debate that raged over the biological causes and effects of war between the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 and World War I. It reconstructs the ...
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... determinist and authoritarian cultural and political dogma or , to be optimistic , translate into more open and liberal categories cherishing peace and free will ? Or were these polarities , on closer inspection , less clear - cut than ...
... determinist and authoritarian cultural and political dogma or , to be optimistic , translate into more open and liberal categories cherishing peace and free will ? Or were these polarities , on closer inspection , less clear - cut than ...
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... determinism . These may be traced back to Darwin , who was no determinist , even though his work set a fashion for arguing from nature to society , for finding an organic basis for culture and factors such as class and race . It was ...
... determinism . These may be traced back to Darwin , who was no determinist , even though his work set a fashion for arguing from nature to society , for finding an organic basis for culture and factors such as class and race . It was ...
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... determinism , teleology and reductionism . These issues rightly claim their due of literary space . Although European and American thought is treated when appropriate , the primary focus is upon Britain . The following chapters ...
... determinism , teleology and reductionism . These issues rightly claim their due of literary space . Although European and American thought is treated when appropriate , the primary focus is upon Britain . The following chapters ...
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Contents
The Darwinian legacy | 6 |
The age of Spencer and Huxley | 29 |
Crisis in the west the prewar generation and the new biology | 63 |
The natural decline of warfare antiwar evolutionism prior to 1914 | 98 |
The First World War man the fighting animal | 130 |
The survival of peace biology | 153 |
Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends | 176 |
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