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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... violent images of ' man the fighting animal ' - perceptions that paved the way for the holocaust of 1914-18 ? Or was there an alternative legacy from Darwin that legitimised peace and mutual aid , rather than bloody struggle , human ...
... violent images of ' man the fighting animal ' - perceptions that paved the way for the holocaust of 1914-18 ? Or was there an alternative legacy from Darwin that legitimised peace and mutual aid , rather than bloody struggle , human ...
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... violent simian humanity , while Allied propaganda magnified the demonic role of Prussianised Social Darwinism in ... violence . This historiography reconstructs and misrepresents things as they were . It is remembered past more than ...
... violent simian humanity , while Allied propaganda magnified the demonic role of Prussianised Social Darwinism in ... violence . This historiography reconstructs and misrepresents things as they were . It is remembered past more than ...
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... violence and war - and their opposites . Both militarist and pacifist speculation used naturalistic analogy and readings of human behaviour based upon supposedly universal and inescapable biological laws 2 Darwinism , war and history.
... violence and war - and their opposites . Both militarist and pacifist speculation used naturalistic analogy and readings of human behaviour based upon supposedly universal and inescapable biological laws 2 Darwinism , war and history.
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... violent nature , being able to construct an independent culture and morality based upon peace . The champions of non - violence effectively censured their militaristic enemies for ' distorting ' Darwinism , and illicitly universalising ...
... violent nature , being able to construct an independent culture and morality based upon peace . The champions of non - violence effectively censured their militaristic enemies for ' distorting ' Darwinism , and illicitly universalising ...
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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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