Mittwoch, 07. Dezember 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 iCal

What, if anything, is Social Darwinism?

Guest Lecture by Prof Gregory Radick

Hörsaal 2H im Neuen Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien

Vortrag

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What, in the late 2010s, should an introduction to "Social Darwinism" cover, and how? In this talk I want to articulate some of the challenges confronting any historian who wants to give the large and complex historical and historiographic difficulties that surround the topic their due, but in a way that still *introduces* the topic (as distinct from, say, denying that there's a topic to introduce, declaring interest in it to be a mark of the unsophisticated mind, etc.). I'll also try to say a little about how far these challenges are generic ones, besetting any attempt to survey complex historical terrain, and how far they're unique to the particular scientific-ideological swamps where "social Darwinism" lies.

Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (UK).

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Veranstalter

Doktoratskolleg "Naturwissenschaften im historischen, philosophischen und kulturellen Kontext"

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Kontakt

Mag. Mag. Mag. Ramon Pils, DipTrans
Institut für Geschichte
01 4277 40872
dksciences.geschichte@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Dienstag, 29. November 2016, 13:54
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 01. Dezember 2016, 09:58