Tag: Karl Marx
Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later
Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer.
Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection
“Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history.”
Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology
Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory.
Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment
The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization.
How Darwin Shaped the Young Joseph Stalin
Jonathan Wells notes that a figure in the totalitarian tradition was influenced by evolution from a very early age.