Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin - Couverture souple

Schaefer, Donovan O.

 
9781478018254: Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin
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ISBN 10 : 1478018259 ISBN 13 : 9781478018254
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1478018259
ISBN 13 
9781478018254
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  1478015624 ISBN 13 :  9781478015628
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2022
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