Darwin loves you: natural selection and the re-enchantment of the world
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1. Verfasser: Levine, George Lewis (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Originally published: 2006
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index
Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Secular Re-enchantment; CHAPTER 2 The Disenchanting Darwin; CHAPTER 3 Using Darwin; CHAPTER 4 A Modern Use: Sociobiology; CHAPTER 5 Darwin and Pain: Why Science Made Shakespeare Nauseating; CHAPTER 6 "And if it be a pretty woman all the better": Darwin and Sexual Selection; CHAPTER 7 A Kinder, Gentler, Darwin; EPILOGUE: What Does It Mean?; Notes; Index
Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight. Darwin, Levine shows, saw a world from which his theory had banished transcendence as still lovable and enchanted, and we can see it like tha
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