Rhetorical Darwinism

Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity

AvThomas M. Lessl

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Everything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work. Harkening back to the Protestant Reformation--a time when the promise of scientific inquiry was intimately connected with a deep faith in divine Providence--Thomas Lessl traces the evolving role and public identity of science in the West.As the Reformation gave way to the Enlightenment, notions of Providence evolved into progress. History's divine plan could now be found in nature, and scientists became history's new prophets. With Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary science, progress and evolution collapsed together into what Lessl calls ""evolutionism,"" and the grand scientific identity was used to advance science's power into the world.In this masterful treatment, Lessl analyzes the descent of these patterns of scientific advocacy from the world of Francis Bacon into the world of Thomas Huxley and his successors. In the end, Rhetorical Darwinism proposes that Darwin's power to fuel the establishment of science within the Western social milieu often turns from its scientific course.Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity received the Religious Communication Associatons ""Book of the Year"" award in 2012.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-18
Mått:152 x 228 x 19 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Rhetoric & Religion
Antal sidor:348
Förlag:Baylor University Press
ISBN:9781602584044
Utmärkelser:Winner of RCA Book of the Year Award 2012 (United States)

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Thomas M. Lessl is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia. A frequent contributor to the Journal of Communication and Religion and the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Lessl received the 2010 Religious Communication Association's Article Award for ""The Innate Religiosity of Political Rhetoric."" He lives in Athens, Georgia.

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From the beginnings of the scientific revolution, demarcating the boundaries of science has been a problem for the scientific community. Thomas Lessl, comparing 'evolution' with what he calls 'rhetorical Darwinism,' argues persuasively that the scientific establishment has never guarded those borders carefully. -- Christianity Today

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Social Meaning of Evolutionary Rhetoric2. Francis Bacon and the Scientific Identity3. Science in God's Bosom4. From Two Books to One5. The New Christianity6. Positivism in the World of Thomas Huxley7. Scientism Scientized8. The Continuing Education of Evolutionism and Science's Battle for the Public Mind

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