Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

The Challenges of Science

Allan Hunter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-79473-3 (ISBN)

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First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

Allan Hunter

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Mechanism of the Universe 2. The Challenges: Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness 3. Theory and Counter-Theory 4. Nostromo: Heroes and Hobson 5. The Secret Agent: Society’s Web and Lombroso 6. Under Western Eyes: Independence and Collapse; Bibliography; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.12.2015
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-138-79473-2 / 1138794732
ISBN-13	978-1-138-79473-3 / 9781138794733
Zustand	Neuware