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Chargement... Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in Americapar Barry Werth
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The last chapter, the Banquet, was a wonderful end to a great book. The author did a superb job of weaving the evolution theme in and through the gilded age of American history. The book has plenty of depth and weight in addition to the factual rendition of this brief historical period. Thrilled I "stumbled" onto this book. ( ) Connecting Darwin to social Darwinism Darwinian theories of natural selection and evolution have been used (and misused) to explain just about everything. Charles Darwin himself never intended it so, the naturalist was a biologist and his theories were meant to be applied apolitically, amorally. But the idea of evolution, positivism, was just too irresistibly easy to be applied to social, political, and economic contexts. In Barry Werth's new book, he traces the emergence of "social Darwinism" in America through the central characters of Herbert Spencer, Henry Ward Beecher, and Andrew Carnegie. Werth shows how Darwin's theories were institutionalized within every aspect of American society because it comfortably fit witin the context of the Gilded era but also because it conveniently supplied an ideology which explained American foundational principles of republicanism, Protestantism, and post-reconstruction Jim Crow. If there is a criticism of the book, it is the excessive biographical information on Ward and Carnegie, which results in a bloated narrative. Otherwise, Werth's analysis is spot on and he uses plenty of great secondary sources to support his arguments. Overall, a great read. Werth's book helps to connect the dots between Darwin and the philosophy of social Darwinism. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War. Prominent among these men were the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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