| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 304 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Secular Re-enchantment; CHAPTER 2 The Disenchanting Darwin; CHAPTER 3 Using Darwin; CHAPTER 4 A Modern Use: Sociobiology; CHAPTER 5 Darwin and Pain: Why Science Made Shakespeare Nauseating; CHAPTER 6 "And if it be a pretty woman all the better": Darwin and Sexual Selection; CHAPTER 7 A Kinder, Gentler, Darwin; EPILOGUE: What Does It Mean?; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight. Darwin, Levine shows, saw a world from which his theory had banished transcendence as still lovable and enchanted, and we can see it like tha |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 fast |
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Natural selection.
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Civilization, Secular.
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Social Darwinism.
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Social Darwinism.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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Civilization, Secular
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Natural selection
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Social Darwinism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400827336 |
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1400827337 |
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1282298275 |
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9781282298279 |
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9786612298271 |
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6612298278 |
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