Donovan O. Schaefer

Wild Experiment

Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the reception of evolutionary biology, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s, Donovan O. Schaefer theorizes the relationship between thinking and feeling by challenging the conventional wisdom that they are separate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018254
• ISBN-10: 1478018259
• Artikelnr.: 62187611

Autorenporträt

Donovan O. Schaefer

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Cogency Theory: An Essay on Our Intellectual Affects  1
Part I. Cogency Theory
1. The Longing to Believe: Philosophers on Conspiracy Theory and the Sense
of Science  33
2. Sensualized Epistemology: Affect Theory on How Reason Gets Racialized 
57
3. Science as an Intoxication: Secularism Studies on Enchantment and
Critique  80
4. Feeling is Believing: The Triune Brain, Mere Exposure, and Cogency  107
Part II. Feeling Science and Secularism
5. Only Better Beasts: Darwin, Huxley, and the Sense of Science  137
6. The Secular Circus: Science and Racialized Reason in the Scopes Trial 
169
7. The Four Horsemen: New Atheism as Secular Conspiracy Theory  200
Epilogue. From Creationism to Climate Denialism  230
Acknowledgments  239
Notes  243
Bibliography  281
Index