| Meanings of Social Darwinism Contributor(s): Schröder, Wiebke (Author) |
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ISBN: 3656395004 ISBN-13: 9783656395003 Publisher: Grin Verlag OUR PRICE: $34.68 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Reference |
| Physical Information: 0.06" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.10 lbs) 24 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, grade: A, Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science), course: The Meanings of Darwinism, language: English, abstract: ...] In this paper I want to show how one particular difference in defining social Darwinism affects the manner of telling history. Namely, the difference between social Darwinism as a world-view that is clearly independent of Darwin's theory and social Darwinism as an application of Darwin's theory in one way or the other. In the next section I explain why I use Hawkins as a representative of the latter version even though he claims to define social Darwinism independently of Darwin. After a short review of Hofstadter's reasons for classifying Carnegie as a social Darwinist, I will analyze Carnegie's essays in some depth. As the only historian who does not take Darwin's theory as the basis for social Darwinism, I will then confront the analysis with Greene's perspective. Finally I conclude with an answer to the question of historiographical relevance of defining social Darwinism one way or the other. |