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Author:   Thierry Hoquet (Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780367360054

ISBN 10:   0367360055
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   05 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction. The meanings of ""Darwinism"" Part I. Darwin-the-Selectionist and beyond Chapter 1. A labyrinthine Origin Chapter 2. Diffracting Darwin’s title— The prism of translations Chapter 3. ""One long argument""? Darwin-the-Selectionist Part II. Darwin-the-Variationist Chapter 4. Darwin-the-Epicurean. Chance and laws of variation. Chapter 5. Darwin-the-Teleologist. Are all variations useful? Chapter 6. Darwin-the-Lamarckian and the Other ""Means of Modification"" Part III. Radical origins: Darwin-the-Cosmologist Chapter 7. ""Mystery of mysteries"": the temptation of origin Chapter 8. ""Originally Breathed"": or, on the Origin of Life Chapter 9. ""Light will be thrown"": or, on the Origin of Mankind Chapter 10. Darwin-the-Darwinist, Or the Quest for Systematic Coherency Conclusion. Darwinisms, or Darwin Diffracted"

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""Like many other classics, The Origin of Species is widely known and referenced, yet rarely actually read. Revisiting the Origin of Species asks us what we should make of this celebrated work in view of the ways it was initially read. This book should encourage uninitiated students and scholars alike to do as its title suggests, functioning as both exhortation and guide The focus of this volume is on Darwin-the-text rather than Darwin-the-man, with sparing use of the industrial-scale scholarship that sprang up in his name. The historicism has a narrow and highly disciplined remit; it is a snapshot in the history of ideas. Hoquet’s examination is almost entirely confined to the debates occurring in the period spanning the Origin’s first appearance in 1859 through to the sixth and last edition of 1872, and its early translations. The aim is to de-synthesize understandings of Darwin’s text, to resist the way twentieth-century developments have reinterpreted it according to what Darwin really meant or should have meant. Hoquet wants to recapture the contention the Origin first provoked."" Roderick David Buchanan, 2019

Like many other classics, The Origin of Species is widely known and referenced, yet rarely actually read. Revisiting the Origin of Species asks us what we should make of this celebrated work in view of the ways it was initially read. This book should encourage uninitiated students and scholars alike to do as its title suggests, functioning as both exhortation and guide The focus of this volume is on Darwin-the-text rather than Darwin-the-man, with sparing use of the industrial-scale scholarship that sprang up in his name. The historicism has a narrow and highly disciplined remit; it is a snapshot in the history of ideas. Hoquet's examination is almost entirely confined to the debates occurring in the period spanning the Origin's first appearance in 1859 through to the sixth and last edition of 1872, and its early translations. The aim is to de-synthesize understandings of Darwin's text, to resist the way twentieth-century developments have reinterpreted it according to what Darwin really meant or should have meant. Hoquet wants to recapture the contention the Origin first provoked. Roderick David Buchanan, 2019

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Thierry Hoquet is Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at Paris Nanterre University, France.

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