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"Why Darwin now? In the past two centuries the world has seen radical change. With cultural and technological revolution came catastrophic alterations to the earth itself, from the wholesale destabilization of the climate system to the devastation of environments that once awed Darwin. To live in the wreckage of the Anthropocene -- as Anna Tsing and her collaborators so eloquently put it -- is to live among the "ghosts" of broken environments, and amid the "monsters" created by our entanglement with other forms of life (A. Tsing et al. 2017). What can Darwin tell us about the problems that haunt the world now? Even biology, the science most changed by Darwin's discoveries, has been dramatically altered since his time by the DNA revolution and the revelations of the microbial world. Speaking at Darwin College, Cambridge, on the sesquicentennial of the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the philosopher John Duprâe gave a succinct answer to this question: we should admit that Darwin "was a scientist" not a soothsayer; "we should not expect him to tell us 150 years later what we should think today.... Darwin is part of history, not [the] present" (Duprâe 2009)"--
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1. Introduction. After Darwin: Ecology, posthumanism, and aesthetics in the twenty-first century Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel; Part I. Environments after Darwin: 2. Darwin after nature: Evolution in an age of extinction Jesse Oak Taylor; 3. Darwin and animal studies Caroline Hovanec; 4. Darwin's birdsong: Sound studies and Darwinian aesthetics Miranda Butler; 5. Darwin and the anthropocene Allen MacDuffie; Part II. Differences after Darwin: 6. Disability after Darwin Travis Chi Wing Lau; 7. Race after Darwin B. Ricardo Brown; 8. Darwin under domestication Kathleen Frederickson; 9. Feminism at war: Sexual selection, Darwinism, and fin-de-siècle fiction Carol Colatrella; 10. The survival of the unfit Wai Chee Dimock; Part III: Humanism after Darwin: 11. Darwin's human history Ian Duncan; 12. Conscience after Darwin Patrick Fessenbecker and Nikolaj Nottelmann; 13. Darwin, the sublime and the chronology of looking Alexis Harley; 14. Instinctive moral actions: Darwin and the ethics of biology Angelique Richardson; 15. Darwinian analogies in thinking about art and culture Haun Saussy; 16. Afterword George Levine.
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An interdisciplinary and international study that helps readers explore the philosophy and writings of Charles Darwin and their contribution to theories of human evolution and difference, philosophy, and beauty. Short chapters detail specific elements of Darwin's thinking about environments, animals, feminism, gender, disability, and ethics.
