Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World.(Book review)

The Australian Journal of Politics and History | September 1, 2009| | Copyright

Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World. By George Levine (Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008), xxvii+304pp. A$42.95 pb. Available Australia from Footprint Books.

Was Darwin a mindless mechanist who ejected love and wonder from the natural world in favour of scientific rationalism and an alienating meaninglessness? No, says Levine, and his book makes a sophisticated and nuanced case for the defence. He draws a connection with Weber. He saw post-Enlightenment science as one major cause of modern impersonalization, "the ...

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