M. J. S. Hodge
Ashgate
Hardback
350
This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge collecting all his most innovative revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus here is on Darwin himself and the construction of his theories seeing how the precise details of his inquiries are integrated with those larger scientific metaphysical religious and political issues that a young ambitious 'philosopher' and 'naturalist' was then expected to engage. This contextual understanding can then allow us to reinterpret his relations to such longer-run legacies as Christian Platonism Enlightenment materialism and British capitalism.
Ashgate
Hardback
350
This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge collecting all his most innovative revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus here is on Darwin himself and the construction of his theories seeing how the precise details of his inquiries are integrated with those larger scientific metaphysical religious and political issues that a young ambitious 'philosopher' and 'naturalist' was then expected to engage. This contextual understanding can then allow us to reinterpret his relations to such longer-run legacies as Christian Platonism Enlightenment materialism and British capitalism.