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On the Origin of Species
Langbeschreibung
In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply heldbeliefs of the Western world, dislodging man from his central position in creationand calling into question the role of the Creator. This revised edition presents the textin light of the most recent scholarship. In her introduction, Gillian Beer considersin detail the first reactions to the work and Darwin's responses and appraises thecontroversy in the light of the recent revival of Creationism and Intelligent Design.
Dame Gillian Beer is Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Her Darwin's Plots (1983; second edition 2000) was followed by Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996). More recently she has been working on Carroll's Alice books in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual controversies and a new collection of her essays on literature and science is scheduled for 2008.
ISBN-13:
9780199219223
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2008
Seiten:
394
Autor:
Charles Darwin
Gewicht:
305 g
Format:
198x132x20 mm
Serie:
Oxford World's Classics
Sprache:
Englisch