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Images of the Economy of Nature, 1650-1930 (Record no. 103751)

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ISBN 9783031310232
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Personal author La Vergata, Antonello.
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Title Images of the Economy of Nature, 1650-1930
Subtitle : From "Nature's War" to Darwin's "Struggle for Life" /
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Edition statement 1st ed. 2023.
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Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer International Publishing :
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2023.
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Physical description V, 616 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.
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Series statement Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on Its Development,
International Standard Serial Number 2524-776X ;
Volume 7
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Contents Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Abundance and Variety -- Chapter 3: Evil in Nature -- Chapter 4: Carnivores, Extinctions, and the Beast -- Chapter 5: Struggle for Life vs Evolution -- Chapter 6: The Struggle for Existence, or, What's in a Metaphor? -- Chapter 7: New Places in the Economy of Nature -- Chapter 8: Survival of the Fittest and Cosmical Evolution -- Chapter 9: Struggles for Existence -- Chapter 10: Another Now, or a Vindication of a "Historical History of Science".
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Abstract The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or "economy of nature") from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. The perspective taken is broad, longue durě and interdisciplinary, and reveals the interplay of scientific, philosophical, moral and social ideas. The story begins with natural theology (dating roughly to the onset of the so-called Newtonian Revolution) and ends with the First World War. The cut-off date has been chosen for the following reasons: the war changed the state of things, affecting man's way of looking at, and relating to, nature both directly and indirectly; indeed, it put an end to most applications of Darwinism to society and history, including interpretations of war as a form of the struggle for existence. The author presents an overview of the different images of nature that were involved in these debates, especially in the late 19th century, when a largepart of the scientific community paid lip service to 'Darwinism', while practically each expert felt free to interpret it in his own distinct way. The book also touches on the so-called 'social Darwinism', which was neither a real theory, nor a common body of ideas, and its various views of society and nature's economy. Part of this book deals with the persistence of moralizing images of nature in the work of many authors. One of the main features of the book is its wealth of (detailed) quotations. In this way the author gives the reader the opportunity to see the original statements on which the author bases his discussion. The author privileges the analysis of different positions over a historiography offering a merely linear narrative based on general implications of ideas and theories. To revisit the concept of the so-called "Darwinian Revolution", we need to examine the various perspectives ofscientists and others, their language and, so to speak, the lenses they used when reading "facts" and theories. The book ends with some general reflections on Darwin and Darwinisms (the plural is important) as a case study on the relationship between intellectual history, the history of science and contextual history. Written by a historian, this book really gives new, multidisciplinary perspectives on the "Darwinian Revolution.".
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Subject term Evolution (Biology).
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Subject term Science
General subdivision History.
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Subject term Philosophy of nature.
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Subject term Biotic communities.
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Subject term Population biology.
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Subject term Evolutionary developmental biology.
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Subject term Evolutionary Theory.
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Subject term History of Science.
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Subject term Evolutionary Biology.
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Subject term Philosophy of Nature.
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Subject term Community and Population Ecology.
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Subject term Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
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Uniform title Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on Its Development,
International Standard Serial Number 2524-776X ;
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