{"product_id":"darwinian-misadventures-in-the-humanities-9781412811477","title":"Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism. In this volume, Eugene Goodheart attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and articulates a powerful defense of humanist criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. O. Wilson, the distinguished Harvard biologist, has spoken of converting philosophy into science, substituting science for religion, and formulating a biological theory of literature and the arts in \u003cem\u003eConsilence: The Unity of Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e. Goodheart demonstrates that Wilson''s efforts, and those of his colleagues Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and Daniel Dennett among others, have resulted in scientism rather than science. If, for example, Dawkins had contented himself in \u003cem\u003eThe Selfish Gene\u003c\/em\u003e with the claim that Darwinism had made worthless other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1. Reducing Literature and the Arts\u003cbr\u003e2. Demystifying Religion\u003cbr\u003e3. Reinventing Ethics\u003cbr\u003e4. Is History a Science?\u003cbr\u003e5. Condescending to Science\u003cbr\u003e6. In Defense of Dualism\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019813257559,"sku":"9781412811477","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781412811477.jpg?v=1750781342","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/darwinian-misadventures-in-the-humanities-9781412811477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}