Meanings of Social Darwinism

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, grade: A, Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science), course: The Meanings of Darwinism, language: English, abstract: [...] In this paper I want to show how one particular difference in defining social Darwinism affects the manner of telling history. Namely, the difference between social Darwinism as a world-view that is clearly independent of Darwin's theory and social Darwinism as an application of Darwin's theory in one way or the other. In the next section I explain why I use Hawkins as a representative of the latter version even though he claims to define social Darwinism independently of Darwin. After a short review of Hofstadter's reasons for classifying Carnegie as a social Darwinist, I will analyze Carnegie's essays in some depth. As the only historian who does not take Darwin's theory as the basis for social Darwinism, I will then confront the analysis with Greene's perspective. Finally I conclude with an answer to the question of historiographical relevance of defining social Darwinism one way or the other.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Wiebke Schröder
• Editore: Grin Verlag
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 26.03.2013
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9783656395003
• ISBN: 978-3-656-39500-3
• Numero di pagine: 24
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.8 x 21 x 0.2 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 51 g
• Serie: Akademische Schriftenreihe > Bd.V211423; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V211423 > .; Akademische Schriftenreihe > Bd.V211423; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V211423