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Victorian Scientific Naturalism电子书

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作       者:Bernard Lightman and Gowan Dawson

出  版  社:University of Chicago Press

出版时间:2014-04-28

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Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalists-led by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndall-sought to persuade both the state and the public that scientists, not theologians, should be granted cultural authority, since their expertise gave them special insight into society, politics, and even ethics.?In Victorian Scientific Naturalism, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman bring together new essays by leading historians of science and literary critics that recall these scientific naturalists, in light of recent scholarship that has tended to sideline them, and that reevaluate their place in the broader landscape of nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging in topic from daring climbing expeditions in the Alps to the maintenance of aristocratic protocols of conduct at Kew Gardens, these essays offer a series of new perspectives on Victorian scientific naturalism-as well as its subsequent incarnations in the early twentieth century-that together provide an innovative understanding of the movement centering on the issues of community, identity, and continuity.
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Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman

Forging Friendships

1. “The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet”: Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on Paleontological Method

2. Evolutionary Naturalism on High: The Victorians Sequester the Alps

3. Paradox: The Art of Scientific Naturalism

Institutional Politics

4. Huxley and the Devonshire Commission

5. Economies of Scales: Evolutionary Naturalists and the Victorian Examination System

6. Odd Man Out: Was Joseph Hooker an Evolutionary Naturalist?

Broader Alliances

7. Sunday Lecture Societies: Naturalistic Scientists, Unitarians, and Secularists Unite against Sabbatarian Legislation

8. The Conduct of Belief: Agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the Formation of Intellectual Communities

9. Where Naturalism and Theism Met: The Uniformity of Nature

New Generations

10. The Fate of Scientific Naturalism: From Public Sphere to Professional Exclusivity

11. The Successors to the X Club? Late Victorian Naturalists and Nature, 1869–1900

12. From Agnosticism to Rationalism: Evolutionary Biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Naturalism

Acknowledgments

Bibliography of Major Works on Scientific Naturalism

List of Contributors

Notes

Index

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