The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe

by Eve-Marie Engels (Editor), Thomas F. Glick (Editor), Elinor Shaffer (Editor)

Overview

Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science with an extensive and varied reception in different countries and disciplines. His theory had a revolutionary impact not only on biology, but also on other natural sciences and the new social sciences. The term 'Darwinism', already popular in Darwin's lifetime, ranged across many different areas and ideological aspects, and his own ideas about the implications of evolution for human cognitive, emotional, social and ethical capacities were often interpreted in a way that did not mirror his own intentions. The implications for religious, philosophical and political issues and institutions remain as momentous today as in his own time.
This volume conveys the many-sidedness of Darwin's reception and exhibit his far-reaching impact on our self- understanding as human beings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826458339
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/03/2009
Series:	The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 2.60(d)

About the Author

Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, has published on Romantic and Victorian literature, is author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School of Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, edited the annual jourbanal Comparative Criticism, and most recently has contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain.

Table of Contents

Volume 1 Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations Time Line: European Reception of Charles Darwin Editors' Introduction Part I: The Darwinian Revolution in Britain 1.Darwin's Philosophical Revolution: Evolutionary Naturalism and First Reactions to his Theory, Eve-Marie Engels (University of Tübingen) 2. Correspondence as a Medium of Reception and Appropriation, Paul White (University of Cambridge) 3. Nation and Religion, The Debate about Darwinism in Ireland: Greta Jones (University of Ulster) Part II: Northwest Europe 4. Under Darwin's Banner: Ernst Haeckel, Carl Gegenbaur and Evolutionary Morphology, Mario A. Di Gregorio (University of L'Aquila) 5. Only 'Dreams from an Afternoon Nap'? Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the Foundation of Biological Anthropology in Germany 1860-1875, Dirk Backenköhler (University of Tübingen) 6. Darwin's Relevance for Nineteenth-Century Physics and Physicists: A Comparative Study, Helmut Pulte (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum) 7. Darwinism in Finland, Anto Leikola (University of Helsinki) 8. Darwinizing the Danes, 1859-1909: Peter C. Kjærgaard (University of Aarhus), Niels Henrik Gregersen (University of Copenhagen) and Hans Henrik Hjermitslev (University of Aarhus) 9. The Introduction, Interpretation and Dissemination of Darwinism in Norway during the period 1860-1890, Thore Lie (Gyldendal Academic Press) 10. Darwin on Dutch Soil: The Early Reception of his Ideas in the Netherlands, Bart Leeuwenburgh (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) and Janneke van der Heide (University of Amsterdam) 11. 'Foggy and Contradictory': Evolutionary Theory in Belgium, 1859-1945, Raf de Bont (University of Leuven) Part III: Central Europe 12. Between Science and Politics: The Reception of Darwin and Darwinism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1859-1959, Tomáš Hermann and Michal Šimunek (Charles-University Prague) 13. Descent versus Extinction: The Reception of Darwinism in Estonia, Ken Kalling (University of Tartu) and Erki Tammiksaar (Centre for Science Studies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu) 14. The Ideas of Charles Darwin in Lithuania: Contributions by Emigrant Authors during the Years of Occupation, Vincas Buda and Alina Irena Šveistyte (Vilnius University) 15. Struggle for or against Participation? How Darwinism came to Partitioned Poland in the 1860s and early 1870s, Daniel Schümann (University of Bamberg) 16. Darwin's Image in Mendel's Brno: Vítezslav Orel (Mendel Museum, Brno) and Margaret H. Peaslee (University of Pittsburgh) Bibliography (Volume 1) Volume 2: The Twentieth Century Series Editor's Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Editors' Introduction Part IV: Southern Europe 17.The Interminable Decline of Lamarckism in France, Patrick Tort (Institut Charles Darwin International) 18. Darwin in a French Dress: Translating, Publishing and Supporting Darwin in Nineteenth-Century France, Joy Harvey (Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge) 19. Many Darwinisms by Many Names: Darwinism and Nature in the Kingdoms of Italy, Rainer Brömer (Mainz, Germany) 20. Darwinism and Paleontology: Reception and Diffusion of the Theory of Evolution in Spain: Francisco Pelayo (Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid) 21. Darwin in Catalunya: From Catholic Intransigence to the Marketing of Darwin's Image, Agusti Camós (Universitat Autónoma of Barcelona) 22.Darwin and the Vatican. The Reception of Evolutionary Theories, Mariano Artigas (University of Navarra), Thomas F. Glick (Boston University), and Rafael Martínez (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) Part V: Southeastern Europe 23. The Scientific Reception of Darwin's Work in Nineteenth-Century Hungary: Sándor Soós (Collegium Budapest) 24. The Reception of Darwin in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Society, Katalin Mund (Eötvös University) 25. Notes on Reception of Darwin's Theory in Romania, Victoria Tatole (National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest) Part VI: Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism in Twentieth-Century Europe 26. The Eclipse and Renaissance of Darwinism in German Biology (1900-1950), Thomas Junker (University of Tübingen) 27. The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Russia: 1920s - 1940s, Yasha Gall and Mikhail B. Konashev (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology, St. Petersburg) 28. Darwinism and Dialectical Materialism in Soviet Russia, Eduard Kolchinksi (Vavilov Institute for History of Science and Technology) 29. Miquel Crusafont, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Reception of the Synthetic Theory in Spain, Thomas F. Glick (Boston University) Bibliography (Volume 2) Index (Volumes 1 and 2)