Book ID: CBB001551952

Samuel Butler against the Professionals: Rethinking Lamarckism 1860-1900 (2015)

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Gillott, David (Author)


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Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 179 + 19 pp.; ill.; index
Language: English

In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole of Butler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory. In particular, he argues that Lamarckism was the foundation on which Butler's attempt to undermine professional authority in a variety of disciplines was based. Samuel Butler against the Professionals provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, and on the surprisingly broad application of Lamarckian ideas in the decades following publication of the Origin of Species.

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Review Cristiano Turbil (2016) Review of "Samuel Butler against the Professionals: Rethinking Lamarckism 1860-1900". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 300-301). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Galera, Andrés
Loison, Laurent
Ansart, Guillaume
Camós, Agustí
Camós i Cabeceran, Agustí
Caponi, Gustavo
Journals
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Journal of the History of Biology
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Vuibert
Indiana University
Columbia University Press
Franz Steiner Verlag
The MIT Press
Concepts
Evolution
Lamarckism
Darwinism
Biology
Natural selection
Physiology
People
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monet de
Darwin, Charles Robert
Butler, Samuel
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Asajiro, Oka
Beurlen, Karl
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
Enlightenment
Places
France
Germany
Soviet Union
Japan
Catalonia (Spain)
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