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The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914.(Book Review)

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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David Stack. The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914. Cheltenham, U.K.: New Clarion Press; dist. by Paul and Co., Chicago. 2003. Pp. viii, 149. $39.95. ISBN 1-873797-38-9.

This short book is the successor volume to Stack's early works in the history of science. It is a...

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...structured by the assumption that the language in which we think structures and conditions what we think. The language of late Victorian socialism, Stack argues, was structured by Darwinian ideas. His book claims to present an "alternative narrative" to existing histories. In this version Socialists "grappled with Darwinian inheritance" rather than grappling with "class, continuity, betrayal or embourgeoisement." He accepts that this emphasis introduces an "occasional lack of balance" into his discussion of socialism, but this is justified by the need to stress the "hitherto underestimated" importance...

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