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  • The Origins of Agnosticism

    Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge

    by Bernard Lightman ...
    Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that "God is unknowable." To address this question, he reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

    The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

    by Bernard Lightman ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Victorian Scientific Naturalism

    Community, Identity, Continuity

    Edited by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman ...
    Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalists—led by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences

    Rethinking the Specialization Thesis

    Edited by Bernard Lightman, Efram Sera-Shriar ...
    Series series
    The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions

    National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920

    Edited by Bernard Lightman, Sarah Qidwai ...
    Series series
    Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider public. In this volume, historians of science and religion examine that relationship through diverse mediums, geographic contexts, and religious traditions. Spanning within and beyond Europe and North ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • Identity in a Secular Age

    Science, Religion, and Public Perceptions

    Edited by Fern Elsdon-Baker, Bernard Lightman ...
    Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alone the many and varied ways in which it might relate to individual belief? In this multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Constructing Scientific Communities

    Edited by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham ...
    Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they ... Read more

    $64.89 CAD

  • Rethinking History, Science, and Religion

    An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle

    Edited by Bernard Lightman ...
    The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Starting in the 1970s, such a conception was too simplistic and not at all accurate when considering the totality of that relationship. This volume evaluates the utility of the “complexity principle” in past, present, and future scholarship. First put ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)

    Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England

    Edited by Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, Richard England ...
    The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the society in April 1869). The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a ... Read more

    $80.19 CAD

  • Science in the Marketplace

    Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences

    Edited by Aileen Fyfe, Bernard Lightman ...
    The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in ... Read more

    $68.19 CAD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Claire Brock, Marwa Elshakry, Sujit Sivasundaram, Ralph O'Connor, Roger Luckhurst, Justin Sausman ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Claire Brock, Marwa Elshakry, Sujit Sivasundaram, Ralph O'Connor, Roger Luckhurst, Justin Sausman ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD