Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as ThreatThis wide-ranging study focuses upon the controversies surrounding the meaning and significance of Social Darwinism. It clarifies the nature of Social Darwinism and its relationship to the ideas of Darwin, Lamarck and Herbert Spencer. After examining the development of Social Darwinist theories by a number of European and American thinkers, Mike Hawkins explores the use of these theories in a number of ideological debates and movements of the period 1860-1945. These include socio-political reform, national and racial conflict, eugenics, the position of women and Nazism/Fascism. The aim is to illuminate, through detailed comparative analyses, both the flexibility and the limits of Social Darwinism - limits which derive from the view of nature which lies at the very heart of Social Darwinism. The study concludes with a discussion of modern sociobiology in order to assess the continuing vitality of Social Darwinism. |
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... sociobiology in order to assess the continuing vitality of Social Darwinism . Historians and social scientists from across many disciplines will enjoy this cogent and subtle analysis of Social Darwinism and will find it an invaluable ...
... sociobiology in order to assess the continuing vitality of Social Darwinism . Historians and social scientists from across many disciplines will enjoy this cogent and subtle analysis of Social Darwinism and will find it an invaluable ...
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... , nature and sexual difference 249 11 Nazism , Fascism and Social Darwinism 272 Postscript : Social Darwinism old and new : the case of sociobiology 292 Bibliography 314 Index 335 Acknowledgements This book has been a long time in the ix.
... , nature and sexual difference 249 11 Nazism , Fascism and Social Darwinism 272 Postscript : Social Darwinism old and new : the case of sociobiology 292 Bibliography 314 Index 335 Acknowledgements This book has been a long time in the ix.
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... sociobiology . In these circumstances it is tempting to adopt Darwinian terminology and to refer to the ' survival value ' of Social Darwinism and its ' adaptation ' to a variety of ideological and social contexts . It may be what ...
... sociobiology . In these circumstances it is tempting to adopt Darwinian terminology and to refer to the ' survival value ' of Social Darwinism and its ' adaptation ' to a variety of ideological and social contexts . It may be what ...
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... sociobiology . This is included partly in order to test the robustness of the conceptualisation of Social Darwinism in a very different historical context . But it also derives from the specific features of the controversies surrounding ...
... sociobiology . This is included partly in order to test the robustness of the conceptualisation of Social Darwinism in a very different historical context . But it also derives from the specific features of the controversies surrounding ...
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Contents
Defining Social Darwinism | 21 |
The distinctiveness of Social Darwinism | 39 |
Pioneers | 59 |
The emergence of Social Darwinism | 61 |
Herbert Spencer and cosmic evolution | 82 |
Social Darwinism in the USA | 104 |
Social Darwinism in France and Germany | 123 |
Case studies | 149 |
Races nations and the struggle for existence | 184 |
The eugenic conscience | 216 |
Social Darwinism nature and sexual difference | 249 |
Nazism Fascism and Social Darwinism | 272 |
Social Darwinism old and new the case of sociobiology | 292 |
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Reform Darwinism | 151 |
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