| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 169 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
One A STUDY IN BIOPHILIA -- Two IT’S DOGGED AS DOES IT -- Three THE GLORIES AND LIMITS OF FACTS -- Four THE DANCE OF PLANTS, THE ROOTS OF MIND -- Five THE VARIETIES OF PASSIONATE EXPERIENCE -- Six BEAUTY IS LIFE, LIFE BEAUTY -- Seven THE ONE GREAT LOVE OF TWO TRUE MINDS |
| Summary |
"Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin's life and thought in deeply original ways. In a set of interrelated essays, she considers how the love of life enabled him to see otherwise unseen evolutionary truths. Harel traces the influence of biophilia on Darwin's views of dogs, facts, thought, emotion, and beauty, informed by little-known material from his private notebooks. She argues that much of what Darwin described, envisioned, and felt was biophilia in action. Closing the book is a profile of Darwin's marriage to Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin, a woman gifted in music and medicine who shared her husband's love of life. Harel's meditative, playful, and lyrical musings draw on the tools of varied disciplines-aesthetics, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, history of science, philosophy, psychiatry, and more-while remaining unbounded by any particular one. Taking unexpected paths to recast a figure we thought we knew, this book offers readers a different Darwin: a man full of love, joy, awe, humility, curiosity, and a zest for living"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 15, 2022) |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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| SUBJECT |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 fast |
| Subject |
Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Biology -- Philosophy.
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NATURE / Essays
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Biology -- Philosophy
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Naturalists
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022015199 |
| ISBN |
9780231557269 |
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0231557264 |
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