Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind: The Early Writings of Charles Darwin - Softcover

Darwin, Charles

 
9780226136592: Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind: The Early Writings of Charles Darwin
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226136590 ISBN 13: 9780226136592
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1974 as a companion volume to Darwin on Man by Howard E. Gruber, Paul Barrett’s transcriptions of Darwin’s M and N notebooks served to shed new light on the evolutionist’s methods and motivation.

According to Stephen Jay Gould in the New York Times Book Review, “Darwin kept [these notebooks] primarily in 1838, when he was 29 years old. In them, he recorded his early conviction of evolutionary continuity between humans and all other animals. . . . These notebooks display all the features of humanistic intellect that his detractors denied. We find erudition in his comments on Plato, Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Whewell, Burke, Montaigne, Lessing and Spencer. . . . We appreciate an artistic bent in his delight with nature and her prophet Wordsworth. . . . We grasp the breadth of his bold attempt to clothe all human thought and behaviour in a new evolutionary garb. . . . Charles Darwin was reconstructing the world and he knew exactly what he was doing.” 

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About the Author

Paul H. Barrett was distinguished professor at Michigan State University and the editor of The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226136590
ISBN 13 
9780226136592
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
252