""Darwin Loves You" is the most interesting book I have read this
year. It is wise, brave, and beautifully written. Levine's
reflections on the important issue of Darwinism as an ideology are
bound to engage readers. He shows that Darwin's science is not
dehumanising or amoral and that it's possible to be a Darwinist and
still believe that the world has meaning."--Janet Browne, author of
"Charles Darwin: The Power of Place"
"George Levine has thought deeply about Darwinism, its cultural
history, and its implications for moral and spiritual values.
"Darwin Loves You" should be read by everyone who thinks that their
values are threatened by evolutionary theory."--David Sloan Wilson,
author of "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature
of Society" and "How to be a Good Evolutionist"
""Darwin Loves You" is a very important work that deserves to be
read by many people well outside the narrow circle of Darwin
specialists. First, it is a brilliant account of how a science is
taken up and used for diverse cultural ends, far beyond the
intention of the author and the content of the text. Second, it is
crucially relevant to the present day with the horrifying rise of
fundamentalist religion in America and abroad. It shows how science
gets misused and misunderstood in dangerous ways by fanatics.
Third, and most important of all, it introduces us to a man who is
deeply in love with his subject, wanting to engage the reader. One
learns here truly why scholarship is such a joyful
activity."--Michael Ruse, author of "The Evolution-Creation
Struggle"
"This is a rich and multilayered argument for a wider
appreciation of a 'kinder, gentler' Darwin. It examines many of the
ways inwhich Darwin's writings have been appropriated by later
social Darwinist and eugenicist thought. Levine makes a cogent
defence of the practice of close reading both Darwin and his many
commentators. The result is a subtle but powerful argument about
the way in which distinctive strands of Darwin's intellectual and
personal identity--as romantic materialist and emotional
subject--need to be appreciated as a possible resource of
re-enchantment, overturning pessimistic, rationalistic, and
technological disenchantment."--David Amigoni, Keele University,
coeditor of "Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species": New
Interdisciplinary Essays"
"Passionate, erudite, and polemical, "Darwin Loves You" draws
its arguments from a heady array of writers and philosophers. This
is a book to think with."--Rebecca Stott, Anglia Ruskin University,
Cambridge, author of "Darwin and the Barnacle"
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