Schaefer Wild Experiment

Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2287-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 325 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaefer, Donovan O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Donovan O. Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power, also published by Duke University Press, and The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power.