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<p><i>Darwin in Russian Thought</i> represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the October Revolution. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also explores the dominant ideological and sociological interpretations of evolutionary thought, providing a deft analysis of the views held by the leaders of Russian nihilism, populism, anarchism, and marxism.<br> Darwin's thinking profoundly influenced intellectual discourse in Russia: it effected the emergence of "theoretical theology," a modern effort to provide theological responses to the revolutionary changes in the natural sciences, contributed to the evolution of a modern scientific community, and spurred the rapidly growing concern with the epistemological and ethical foundations of science in general. Scholarly battles were waged among the critics of Darwin—Karl von Baer, Nikolai Iakovlevich Danilevskii and Sergei Ivanovich Korzhinskii, and others—and the defenders of the faith.<br> Vucinich is able to delineate the distinctive national characteristics of Russian Darwinism:

Author

Vucinich, Alexander, 1914-

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520062832

Subjects

Reference, Philosophy, Computer Science