Maneres de veure el món: Darwin i la primera generació victoriana

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  • Josep M. Fradera Universitat Pompeu Fabra/ICREA

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religion, slavery, abolitionism, aborigines, extinction, race.

Abstract

The great books of 1859 and 1871 by Charles Darwin are closely related with the knowledge and supremacy over the world by a select group of European countries or countries built by European emigrants. That knowledge however was closely related with the cultural contradictions of the period. The destinies of slavery as institution and the growing power upon the so-called «aborigines», for instance, were the results of the Imperial and colonial expansion all over the world. In a way or another, the concepts of species or subspecies, race, were imbedded with the ideas of progress and hierarchy of the time which the overflow of information seemed only to confirm. Anyway, Darwin was on the margins to such questions either by moral imperatives or as a result of scientific purposes. Always responsibly related with his work as naturalist, the major works by Darwin reflected some way the contradictions and preoccupations of those Victorian generations.

Keywords: religion, slavery, abolitionism, aborigines, extinction, race.

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Josep M. Fradera, Universitat Pompeu Fabra/ICREA



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