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Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin - Softcover

Schaefer, Donovan O.

 
9781478018254: Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1478018259 ISBN 13: 9781478018254
Verlag: Duke University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and contemporary literary criticism, Schaefer reconceptualizes rationality as defined by affective processes at every level. He introduces the model of "cogency theory" to reconsider the relationship between evolutionary biology and secularism, examining mid-nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s. Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. These case studies locate the intersection of thinking and feeling in the way scientific rationality balances excited discovery with anxious scrutiny, in the fascination of conspiracy theories, and in how racist feelings assume the mantle of rational objectivity. The fact that cognition is felt, Schaefer demonstrates, is both why science succeeds and why it fails. He concludes that science, secularism, atheism, and reason itself are not separate from feeling but comprehensively defined by it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donovan O. Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power, also published by Duke University Press, and The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power.

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Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1478018259
ISBN 13 
9781478018254
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
326
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