1st Edition

Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities

By Eugene Goodheart Copyright 2007
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism. In this volume, Eugene Goodheart attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and articulates a powerful... Read more

Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Reducing Literature and the Arts
2. Demystifying Religion
3. Reinventing Ethics
4. Is History a Science?
5. Condescending to Science
6. In Defense of Dualism
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index

Biography

Eugene Goodheart