Bernard Lightman

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

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Produktbeschreibung

Scholars have tended to portray T. H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain, and shifts the focus to include those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138382435
• ISBN-10: 1138382434
• Artikelnr.: 57385728

Autorenporträt

Bernard Lightman is Professor of Humanities, York University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Science, scientists and the public: the contested meanings of science in Victorian Britain
Victorian sciences and religions: discordant harmonies
Robert Elsmere and the agnostic crises of faith
Interpreting agnosticism as a nonconformist sect: T.H. Huxley's 'new reformation
Scientists as materialists in the periodical press: Tyndall's Belfast address
Huxley and scientific agnosticism: the strange history of a failed rhetorical strategy
Ideology, evolution, and late-Victorian agnostic popularizers
' Fighting even with death': Balfour, scientific naturalism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's final battle
'A conspiracy of one': Butler, natural theology and Victorian popularization
'The voices of nature': popularizing of Victorian science
Frank Buckland and the resilience of natural theology: curiosity of natural history?
Science and the postmodern crisis
Index.