1st Edition
Samuel Butler against the Professionals Rethinking Lamarckism 1860-1900
By David Gillott
Copyright 2015
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, Samuel Butler. It 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.
Introduction 1. The Origins of Butler's Lamarckism 2. The Attack on Darwin and Professional Science 3. The Evolution of Butler's Epistemology 4. Anti-Academicism and Lamarckian Aesthetics 5. Towards a Posthumous Life 6. Conclusion
Biography
David Gillott
