"Why Darwin now? In the past two centuries the world has seen radical change. With cultural and technological revolution came catastrophic alterations to the earth itself, from the wholesale destabilization of the climate system to the devastation of environments that once awed Darwin. To live in the wreckage of the Anthropocene -- as Anna Tsing and her collaborators so eloquently put it -- is to live among the "ghosts" of broken environments, and amid the "monsters" created by our entanglement with other forms of life (A. ...
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"Why Darwin now? In the past two centuries the world has seen radical change. With cultural and technological revolution came catastrophic alterations to the earth itself, from the wholesale destabilization of the climate system to the devastation of environments that once awed Darwin. To live in the wreckage of the Anthropocene -- as Anna Tsing and her collaborators so eloquently put it -- is to live among the "ghosts" of broken environments, and amid the "monsters" created by our entanglement with other forms of life (A. Tsing et al. 2017). What can Darwin tell us about the problems that haunt the world now? Even biology, the science most changed by Darwin's discoveries, has been dramatically altered since his time by the DNA revolution and the revelations of the microbial world. Speaking at Darwin College, Cambridge, on the sesquicentennial of the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the philosopher John Dupr???e gave a succinct answer to this question: we should admit that Darwin "was a scientist" not a soothsayer; "we should not expect him to tell us 150 years later what we should think today.... Darwin is part of history, not [the] present" (Dupr???e 2009)"--
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New. Size: 6x0x9; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. "Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how specific patterns came to be over time, spinning yarns filled with protagonists and antagonists, crises, triumphs, and tragedies. His fictions also forged striking new possibilities for the interpretation of human societies and their relation to natural environments. This volume gathers an international roster of scholars to ask what Darwin's writing offers future of literary scholarship and critical theory, as well as allied fields like history, art history, philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, the history of race, aesthetics, and ethics. It speaks to anyone interested in the impact of Darwin on the humanities, including literary scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in Darwin's continuing influence."
