Interrogations of evolutionism in German literature 1859-2011 / by Nicholas Saul.
| Author/creator | Saul, Nicholas |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021] |
| Description | vii, 284 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 0304-6257 ; 93 |
| Abstract | "Darwin's idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Jünger and Botho Strauss to Dietmar Dath. Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sphere after 1945, Darwinian thought is in fact shown to be distorted though the lens of Social Darwinism and bionationalist organicism. As Nicholas Saul shows, literature has been the main agent in public discourse for challenging such illiberal presentations, and there is a common thread of salvific individualism which leads to the new legitimacy of Darwinian discourse today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020056519 |
| ISBN | 9789004427068 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |