Stephen Jay Gould And The Politics Of Evolution by David F Prindle

Stephen Jay Gould And The Politics Of Evolution by David F Prindle

Harvard palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould was, until his death in 2002, America's best-known natural scientist. His monthly essays in Natural History magazine were widely read by both scientists and ordinary citizens with an interest in science. This book explores his science and politics as a consistent whole.

Genius, Marxist, sage, ideologue: the legacy of Stephen Jay Gould is nothing if not controversialDavid F. Prindle, a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, provides an absorbing account of the biologist's scientific work, viewed through the lens of his explicitly political writing. Aided by the intrinsic charm of Gould's public persona, Prindle brings an otherwise dry textual analysis to life. Besides providing a deeper understanding of the concepts that propelled Gould to the forefront of his field, he puts the Kuhnian question underpinning that work into stark relief: not whether science should be isolated from the politics of the time and place in which it is created, but whether such a thing is possible. -- Seed Magazine.com, Seed Picks, April 2009 A welcome addition to our understanding of late 20th-century evolutionary science, of which we know little, and a provocative introduction to a major figure. -- Science, November 6, 2009

David F. Prindle (Austin, TX) is the author of The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought, among other books and articles. He is professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.

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ISBN 13	9781591027188
ISBN 10	1591027187
Title	Stephen Jay Gould And The Politics Of Evolution
Author	David F Prindle
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Prometheus Books
Year published	2009-05-26
Number of pages	249
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