Darwin and Design
21L.448J · Literature · Undergraduate · Fall 2003
Prof. Alvin Kibel
<p>This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the immediate intellectual antecedents and some of the implications of the ideas animating Darwin’s revolutionary <em>On the Origin of Species</em>. Darwin’s text, of course, is about the mechanism that drives the evolution of life on this planet, but the fundamental ideas of the text have implications that range well beyond the scope of natural history, and th…
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