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Evolutionism in Eighteenth-Century French Thought (Hardcover, New edition)
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Evolutionism in Eighteenth-Century French Thought (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures, 166
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This book examines how eight eighteenth-century French theorists -
Maillet, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Buffon, Maupertuis, Diderot,
Rousseau, and Voltaire - addressed evolutionism. Each thinker laid
down a building block that would eventually open the door to the
mutability of species and a departure from the long-held belief
that the chain of beings is fixed. This book describes how the
philosophes established a triune relationship among contemporary
scientific discoveries, random creationism propelled by the motive
and conscious properties of matter, and the notion of the chain of
being, along with its corollaries, plenitude and continuity. Also
addressed is the contemporary debate over whether apes could ever
be taught to speak as well as the issue of race and the family of
man.
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