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Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals): The Challenges of Science

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals): The Challenges of Science

Hunter, Allan

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesEvolution

ISBN10: 1138794732
ISBN13: 9781138794733
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 8 2015
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad's detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

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