Darwin loves you : natural selection and the re-enchantment of the world / George Levine.

By:

Levine, George, 1931-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 304 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400827336
1400827337
1282298275
9781282298279
9786612298271
6612298278

Other title:

Natural selection and the re-enchantment of the world

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Darwin loves you.DDC classification:

576.8/2092 22

LOC classification:

QH31.D2 L48 2008eb

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Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Secular Re-enchantment; CHAPTER 2 The Disenchanting Darwin; CHAPTER 3 Using Darwin; CHAPTER 4 A Modern Use: Sociobiology; CHAPTER 5 Darwin and Pain: Why Science Made Shakespeare Nauseating; CHAPTER 6 "And if it be a pretty woman all the better": Darwin and Sexual Selection; CHAPTER 7 A Kinder, Gentler, Darwin; EPILOGUE: What Does It Mean?; Notes; Index.

Summary: Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight. Darwin, Levine shows, saw a world from which his theory had banished transcendence as still lovable and enchanted, and we can see it like tha.

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Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index.

Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight. Darwin, Levine shows, saw a world from which his theory had banished transcendence as still lovable and enchanted, and we can see it like tha.