Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as ThreatCambridge University Press, 1997 M03 13 - 344 páginas This wide-ranging study focuses upon the controversies surrounding the meaning and significance of Social Darwinism. It clarifies the nature of Social Darwinism and its relationship to the ideas of Darwin, Lamarck and Herbert Spencer. After examining the development of Social Darwinist theories by a number of European and American thinkers, Mike Hawkins explores the use of these theories in a number of ideological debates and movements of the period 1860-1945. These include socio-political reform, national and racial conflict, eugenics, the position of women and Nazism/Fascism. The aim is to illuminate, through detailed comparative analyses, both the flexibility and the limits of Social Darwinism - limits which derive from the view of nature which lies at the very heart of Social Darwinism. The study concludes with a discussion of modern sociobiology in order to assess the continuing vitality of Social Darwinism. |
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... relationship to the theories of Darwin , Lamarck and Herbert Spencer . In the first comprehensive comparison of the myriad European and American developments of these theories , the author explores their use in a number of crucial ...
... relationship to the theories of Darwin , Lamarck and Herbert Spencer . In the first comprehensive comparison of the myriad European and American developments of these theories , the author explores their use in a number of crucial ...
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... relationship between Social Darwinism and Darwin himself , broadly dividing between those who see a connection and those who insist on a radical difference between the work of the English naturalist and the ideological uses to which his ...
... relationship between Social Darwinism and Darwin himself , broadly dividing between those who see a connection and those who insist on a radical difference between the work of the English naturalist and the ideological uses to which his ...
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... relationship to Spencer's theories which will be taken up in later chapters . For the moment I want to raise a different objection to the catchphrase approach : any attempt to define Darwinism by means of a list of concepts - even if ...
... relationship to Spencer's theories which will be taken up in later chapters . For the moment I want to raise a different objection to the catchphrase approach : any attempt to define Darwinism by means of a list of concepts - even if ...
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... relationships among these ideas - but retaining its overall identity notwithstanding these modifications . Some commentators have defined Social Darwinism as the explicit endorsement of Darwin's theory of evolution , leaving open the ...
... relationships among these ideas - but retaining its overall identity notwithstanding these modifications . Some commentators have defined Social Darwinism as the explicit endorsement of Darwin's theory of evolution , leaving open the ...
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... relationship between Darwinism and warfare , see P. Crook , Darwinism , War and History ( Cambridge University Press , 1994 ) . 17 Spencer believed that struggle had evolved from warfare in primitive times to industrial competition in ...
... relationship between Darwinism and warfare , see P. Crook , Darwinism , War and History ( Cambridge University Press , 1994 ) . 17 Spencer believed that struggle had evolved from warfare in primitive times to industrial competition in ...
Contenido
Defining Social Darwinism | 21 |
The distinctiveness of Social Darwinism | 39 |
Pioneers | 59 |
The emergence of Social Darwinism | 61 |
Herbert Spencer and cosmic evolution | 82 |
Social Darwinism in the USA | 104 |
Social Darwinism in France and Germany | 123 |
Case studies | 149 |
Races nations and the struggle for existence | 184 |
The eugenic conscience | 216 |
Social Darwinism nature and sexual difference | 249 |
Nazism Fascism and Social Darwinism | 272 |
Social Darwinism old and new the case of sociobiology | 292 |
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Reform Darwinism | 151 |
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