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Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals): The Challenges of Science - Hardcover

Hunter, Allan

 
9781138794726: Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals): The Challenges of Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138794724 ISBN 13: 9781138794726
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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Allan Hunter

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138794724
ISBN 13 
9781138794726
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272