Darwin Loves You Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World

Name: Darwin Loves You Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World
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ISBN: 9780691136394

ISBN-10: 0691136394

ISBN-13: 9780691136394

Edition: 2008

Authors: George Levine

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Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight. Darwin, Levine shows, saw a world from which his theory had banished transcendence as still lovable and enchanted, and we can see it like that too--if we look at his writings and life in a new way. Although Darwin could find sublimity even…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Secular Re-enchantment



The Disenchanting Darwin



Using Darwin



A Modern Use: Socibiology



Darwin and Pain: Why Science Made Shakespeare Nauseating



"And if it be a pretty woman all the better": Darwin and Sexual Selection



A Kinder, Gentler, Darwin


Epilogue: What Does It Mean?


Notes


Index