Social Darwinism in American Thought - Softcover

Hofstadter, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807055034 ISBN 13: 9780807055038

Verlag: Beacon Press, 1992

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A book that is in many ways a model of its kind . . . Mr. Hofstadter is compact, lucid, informed, vigorous . . . If you really want to know why and how some of the contradictions in American social thought came into being, Social Darwinism is as excellent a study as you can hope to find. --The New York Times

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Are society’s disadvantaged doomed to get “selected out” of the economic pool? Is America’s social landscape a battleground for “survival of the fittest, where only the strong endure? Once again, biology is being used to explain human development, and right-wing ideologues claim reluctance to intervene in the “natural” workings of the economy. Richard Hofstadter’s now-classic work offers important insight into how ideas borne out of evolutionary theory continue to effect American values. Tracing the impact of Darwin on thinkers throughout the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, Social Darwinism shows how a politically neutral scientific theory has been adapted with skillful rhetoric to contradictory purposes.

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• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0807055034
• ISBN 13: 9780807055038
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280