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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Antonello La VergataPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Volume: 7 Weight: 1.093kg ISBN: 9783031310225ISBN 10: 3031310225 Pages: 616 Publication Date: 07 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents 1. Introduction 2. Abundance and Variety 2.1 Natural theology 2.2 Teleology 2.3 Evil 2.4 The Economy of Nature 2.5 Abundance 2.6 Variety 2.7 Contrivances 2.8 Evil Justified 2.9 The Usefulness of Destruction 2.10 Checks to Overmultiplication 2.11 Linnaeus: Order Through Destruction 2.12 Buffon: Balances and Counterbalances in a Newtonian Universe 2.13 A Pious Pharmacien’s Hymn to Nature 2.14 Competition Among “Sperm Worms” 2.15 Discord and Compensation 2.16 Consolation in the Slaughterhouse 2.17 Concluding Remarks Notes References 3. Evil in Nature 3.1 “You Shout ‘All Is well’ in a Lamenting Voice” 3.2 “A Mixture of Good and Evil” 3.3 “Truly Philosophical and Christian Consolations” 3.4 “Tout est bien pour le tout” 3.5 Compensation, and Some of its Uses 3.6 Compensation and Perversion 3.7 Pessimism as an Antidote to Misanthropy, or, Nature as a Stepmother 3.8 “Blind Will” Notes References 4. Carnivores, Extinctions, and the Beast 4.1 Predators 4.2 The Death of Species 4.3 Death and Happiness 4.4 Carnivores and Evil 4.5 Geology and Evil 4.6 Sin Securalised, or the “Beast Within”… 4.7 … and the “Beast Without” 4.8 Conclusion Notes References 5. Struggle for Life vs Evolution 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Transformation and Order 5.3 Competing for Space 5.4 “Equilibrium in the Number of Species, how Preserved” 5.5 “Where Is the Balance?” 5.6 Naval Timber and Colonial Expansion 5.7 The “Conservative Aspect of the Struggle for Existence” 5.8 Louis Agassiz’s Version of Design 5.9 Hardship and Luxuriance 5.10 Struggle in a Southern Hemisphere Perspective 5.11 “Creation by Law” and “Type Forms” 5.12 Conclusion Notes References 6. The Struggle for Existence, or, What’s in a Metaphor? 6.1. A Multi-Metaphor, or “Struggle Within Struggle” 6.2. A Look at Darwin’s Files 6.3 Why Metaphors? 6.4 Constructing a Metaphor 6.5 Death of Species and Death of Tribes 6.6 The “War of Organic Beings” 6.7 Darwin and Malthus 6.8 Energy and Improvement 6.9 The Last Natural Theologian? Or, Darwin on Good and Evil 6.10 Conclusion Notes References 7. New Places in the Economy of Nature 7.1 Darwin the Humboldtian 7.2 Measuring and Contemplating 7.3 Botanical Arithmetic 7.4 Divergence 7.5 Advantages of Diversity 7.6 Spontaneous Variability 7.7 “An Inextricable Net-Work of Relations” 7.8 The Relativity of Adaptation 7.9 “Place in the Economy of Nature” 7.10 Can the Quantity of Life Increase Indefinitely? 7.11 Concluding Remarks Notes References 8. Survival of the Fittest and Cosmical Evolution 8.1 Change Through Struggle and Exertion 8.2 “Nothing in Nature that Is Not Useful” 8.3 A Philosopher for all Seasons 8.4 Human Nature 8.5 Progress and Adaptation 8.6 The “Stern Discipline of Nature” 8.7 The Physical Principles of Evolution 8.8 A Digression: Struggle for Life Among Atoms 8.9 Direct and Indirect Equilibration 8.10 Concluding Remarks Notes References 9. Struggles for Existence 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Is There a Struggle for Existence as Darwin Describes It? 9.3 Yes, There Is a Struggle, but… 9.4 Mechanism and Teleology 9.5 “Struggle” Taken Literally 9.6 Warlike Images 9.7 Different Moral Messages 9.8 Mutual Aid vs Struggle 9.9 The “Struggle Against Struggle” and the “Association for the Struggle” 9.10 Strife, Endeavour, and Effort 9.11 Ascent Through Struggle 9.12. Competition, Progress, and Compensation 9.13 “Endeavour after Well-being” 9.14 Translating, Disentangling, Subdividing, Qualifying, and Going Deeper 9.15 Struggle Without and Struggle Within 9.16 Selections 9.17 From Bloody Struggle to the Struggle of Ideas 9.18 Concluding Remarks Notes References 10. Another Now, or a Vindication of a “Historical History of Science” 10.1. Struggle Discharged 10.2 Revolution or Eclipse? 10.3 Has Moralizing About Nature Ceased? Notes ReferencesReviewsAuthor InformationAntonello La Vergata was full professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia until his retirement in 2022. He has also been visiting professor of the History of Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, and at the Stanford University Program in Florence. He was awarded the Prix Marc-Auguste Pictet by the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève (1995), and the “Giuseppe Montalenti Medal” by the Department of Evolutionary Biology “Charles Darwin”, at the University of Rome (2014). He is a member of the editorial board of various scientific/historical journals, and has published over 250 articles and six books. His research areas include: the history of evolution theories; relations between the life sciences, philosophy and the social sciences; war; images of nature and man’s place in nature; science and literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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