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From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany - Hardcover

Weikart, R.

 
9781403965028: From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1403965021 ISBN 13: 9781403965028
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism.

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RICHARD WEIKART is an Associate Professor of Modern European History, California State University, Stanislaus, USA. He has had two previous books published, including Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein (1999), as well as articles in German Studies Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, Isis, European Legacy and History of European Ideas.


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"This is one of the finest examples of intellectual history I have seen in a long while. It is insightful, thoughtful, informative, and highly readable. Rather than simply connecting the dots, so to speak, the author provides a sophisticated and nuanced examination of numerous German thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were influenced to one degree or another by Darwinist naturalism and their ideas, subtly drawing both distinctions and similarities and in the process telling a rich and colorful story. "
-- Ian Dowbiggin, Professor of History at the University of Prince Edward Island and author ofA Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1403965021
ISBN 13 
9781403965028
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
323
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