Socialist Darwinism
by RICHARD WEIKART
This book is a revised version of a dissertation (University of Iowa, 1994) that in 1996 won the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Science for the best dissertation in that field. The book was originally published in 1999 by International Scholars Publications.
Table of Contents
- Foreword (by Alfred Kelly) vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- I. Karl Marx's Ambivalence toward Darwinism 15
- II. Friedrich Engels: Evolution and the Dialectics of Nature 53
- III. Non-Marxian Socialist Darwinism: Friedrich Albert Lange and Ludwig Buchner 83
- IV. The Role of Biologists in the Darwinism-Socialism Controversy in Germany 103
- V. August Bebel's Popularization of Evolution 131
- VI. Karl Kautsky: Apostle of Socialist Darwinism 157
- VII. Eduard Bernstein and Evolutionary Socialism 195
- Conclusion 221
- Bibliography 225
- Index 255
Updated: July 14, 2023