Glick What about Darwin?

All Species of Opinion from Scientists, Sages, Friends, and Enemies Who Met, Read, and Discussed the Naturalist Who Changed the World
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9752-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P. T. Barnum, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma Gandhi, Carl Jung, Martin Luther King, Mao Tse-tung, Pius IX, Jules Verne, and Virginia Woolf.

What was it about Darwin that generated such widespread interest? His Origin of Species changed the world. Naturalists, clerics, politicians, novelists, poets, musicians, economists, and philosophers alike could not help but engage his theory of evolution. Whatever their view of his theory, however, those who met Darwin were unfailingly charmed by his modesty, kindness, honesty, and seriousness of purpose.

This diverse collection drawn from essays, letters, novels, short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, and parodies demonstrates how Darwin’s ideas permeated all areas of thought. The quotations trace a broad conversation about Darwin across great distances of time and space, revealing his profound influence on the great thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glick, Thomas F.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Nachschlagewerke: Zitate, geflügelte Worte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. A
Chapter 2. B
Chapter 3. C
Chapter 4. D
Chapter 5. E
Chapter 6. F
Chapter 7. G
Chapter 8. H
Chapter 9. I
Chapter 10.J
Chapter 11. K
Chapter 12. L
Chapter 13. M
Chapter 14. N
Chapter 15. O
Chapter 16. P
Chapter 17. Q
Chapter 18. R
Chapter 19. S
Chapter 20. T
Chapter 21. U
Chapter 22. V
Chapter 23. W
Chapter 24. X
Chapter 25. Y
Chapter 26. Z
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Glick, Thomas F.
Thomas F. Glick is a professor of history at Boston University and has written widely on Darwin. Among his many books are Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902, also published by Johns Hopkins; The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World; and The Comparative Reception of Darwinism.