Samuel Butler Against the Professionals: Rethinking Lamarckism 1860-1900

ISBN-13: 9780367601553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

David Gillott

Opis

This book provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, Samuel Butler. It offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole of Butler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Origins of Butler's Lamarckism 2. The Attack on Darwin and Professional Science 3. The Evolution of Butler's Epistemology 4. Anti-Academicism and Lamarckian Aesthetics 5. Towards a Posthumous Life 6. Conclusion

O autorze

David Gillott