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Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thought neglects a strong anti-Malthusian tradition in English intellectual life, one that not only predated the 1859 publication of the Origin of Species but also persisted throughout the Victorian period until World War I. Political Descent reveals that two evolutionary and political traditions developed in England in the wake of the 1832 Reform Act
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Contents; Introduction: The Politics of Evolution; Chapter 1. Every Cheating Tradesman: The Political Economy of Natural Selection; Chapter 2. A Very Social Darwinist: Herbert Spencer's Lamarckian Radicalism; Chapter 3. A Liberal Descent: Charles Darwin and the Evolution of Ethics; Chapter 4. Liberals and Socialists: The Politics of Evolution in Victorian England; Chapter 5. Malthus or Mutualism?: Huxley, Kropotkin, and the Moral Meaning of Darwinism; Chapter 6. Of Mice and Men: Malthus, Weismann, and the Future of Socialism
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Chapter 7. Fear of Falling: Evolutionary Degeneration and the Politics of PanmixiaConclusion: Political Descent: Anticipations of the Twentieth Century and Beyond; Afterword: Engaging the Present; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hale, Piers J. Political descent Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014 ISBN 9780226108490
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Englisch
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Geschichte
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Malthus, Thomas Robert 1766-1834
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Bevölkerungspolitik
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Ethik
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Geschichte
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