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Darwin's Perception of Nature and the Question of Disenchantment: a Semantic Analysis Across the Six Editions of On the Origin of Species
(Springer, 2021-04-14)
This body of work is motivated by an apparent contradiction between, on the one hand, Darwin's testimony in his autobiographical text about a supposed perceptual colour blindness before the aesthetic magnificence of natural ...
You too Can Find ‘Grandeur in this View of Life.’ A Linguistic Remedy for Resisting the Desire to Abandon Darwin’s Origin of Species
(Springer, 2023-10-11)
Given the scientific, socio-cultural, philosophical, and anthropological implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, it should be within reach of every motivated reader to discover its theoretical intricacies by ...
Más allá de Humboldt. Sobre la percepción darwiniana del tiempo en la naturaleza
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2022-02-02)
Este artículo testa la generalizada aceptación experta que detecta en Journal of Researches de Darwin una influencia estilístico-ideológica proveniente de las obras de Humboldt. Para ello, dado que las descripciones de la ...
Journey from Enchantment to Disenchantment?A Study on Darwin’s Descriptions of Nature from the Journal to the Origin
(Universidad de Murcia, 2021-05-01)
Taking into accountthe disputed ques-tion about enchantment or disenchantment of the world caused by modern science, this paper com-paratively examines the semantics of the lexicon of Charles Darwin’s Journal of ...
Darwin Puzzled? A Computer-assisted Analysis of Language in the Origin of Species
(Springer, 2021-06-05)
The aesthetically optimistic view of life in the last paragraph of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species contrasts with the evidence in his autobiography of a supposed perceptive colour blindness to the magnificence of nature. ...