『The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought』

Robert J. Richards

(2008年5月13日刊行,The University of Chicago Press, Chicago,xx+551 pp. with 8 color plates,ISBN:9780226712147 [hbk] → 版元ページ著者ページ

【目次】
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xvii


1. Introduction 1

The Tragic Source of the Anti-Religious Character of Evolutionary Theory 13

2. Formation of a Romantic Biologist 19

Early Student Years 20
University Years 26
Habilitation and Engagement 49

3. Research in Italy and Conversion to Darwinism 55

Friendship with Allmers and Temptations of the Bohemian Life 57
Radiolarians and the Darwninian Explanation 63
Appendix: Haeckel's Challenger Investigations 75

4. Triumph and Tragedy at Jena 79

Habilitation and Teaching 80
Friendship with Gegenbaur 84
For Love of Anna 90
The Defender of Darwin 94
Tragedy in Jena 104

5. Evolutionary Morphology in the Darwinian Mode 113

Haeckel's Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 118
Haeckel's Darwinism 135
Reaction to Haeckel's Generell Morphologie 162
Conclusion 165
Appendix: Haeckel's Letter to Darwin 168

6. Travel to England and the Canary Islands: Experimental Justification of Evolution 171

Visit to England and Meeting witwickeh Darwin 172
Travel to the Canary Islands 176
Research on Siphonaphores 180
Entwickelungsmechanik 189
A Polymorphous Sponge: The Analytical Evidence for Darwinian Theory 195
Conclusions: A Naturalist Voyaging 213

7. The Popular Presentation of Evolution 217

Haeckel's Natural History of Creation 223
Conclusion: Evolutionary Theory and Racism 269

8. The Rage of the Critics 277

Critical Objections and Charges of Fraud 278
Haeckel's Response to His Critics 296
The Epistemology of Photograph and Fact: Renewed Charges of Fraud 303
The Munich Confrontation with Virchow: Science vs. Socialism 312
Conclusion 329

9. The Religious Response to Evolutionism: Ants, Embryos, and Jesuits 343

Haeckel's Journey to the Tropics: The Footprint of Religion 344
“Science Has Nothing to Do With Christ” —— Darwin 350
Erich Wasmann, a Jesuit Evolutionist 356
The Keplerbund vs. the Monistenbund 371
The Response of ther Forty-six 382
Conclusion 383

10. Love in a Time of War 391

At Long Last Love 391
The World Puzzles 398
The Consolations of Love 403
Second Journey to the Tropics —— Java and Sumatra 405
Growth in Love and Despair 413
Lear on the Heath 419
The Great War 425

11. Conclusion: The Tragic Sense of Ernst Haeckel 439

Early Assessments of Haeckel Outside of Germany 440
Haeckel in the English-Speaking World at Midcentury 442
Haeckel Scholarship in Germany (1900 - Present) 444
The Contemporary Evaluation: Haeckel and the Nazis Again 448
The Tragedy of Haeckel's Life and Science 453


Appendix 1: A Brief History of Morphology 455

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) 456
Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776-1847) 461
Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) 464
Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861) 466
Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) 470
Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800-1862) 474
Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) 478
Richard Owen (1804-1892) 481
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 484

Appendix 2: The Moral Grammar of Narratives in the History of Biology —— the Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology 489

Introduction: Scientific History 489
The Temporal and Causal Grammar of Narrative History 492
The Moral Grammar of Narrative History 497
The Case of Ernst Haeckel 500
The Moral Indictment of Haeckel 502
Nazi Race Hygienists and Their Use of Haeckelian Ideas 504
The Judgment of Historical Relationship 505
The Reaction of Contemporary Historians 506
Principles of Moral Judgment 509
Conclusion 512


Bibliography 513
Index 541