Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-215
Author(s):  
Klaus Klein
Keyword(s):  
Ernst Haeckel

scholarly journals The meaning of absence: the primate tree that did not make it into Darwin's The Descent of Man

BJHS Themes ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Marianne Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Human Populations ◽  
Ernst Haeckel ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Tree Diagram ◽  
Organismic Evolution ◽  
Racial Hierarchies ◽  
Descent Of Man ◽  
Human Phylogeny

Abstract This paper engages with a specific image: Darwin's tree of the primates. Although this diagram was sketched in ink on paper in 1868, it did not make it into the publication of The Descent of Man (1871). This may seem all the more in need of an explanation because, as Adrian Desmond and James Moore have shown, Darwin strongly relied on the notion of familial genealogy in the development of his theory of organismic evolution, or rather descent. However, Darwin expressed scepticism towards visualizations of phylogenies in correspondence with Ernst Haeckel and in fact also in Descent, considering such representations at once too speculative and too concrete. An abstraction such as a tree diagram left little room to ponder possibilities or demarcate hypotheses from evidence. I thus bring Darwin's primate tree into communication with his view on primate and human phylogeny as formulated in Descent, including his rejection of polygenism. I argue that considering the tree's inherent teleology, as well as its power to suggest species status of human populations and to reify ‘racial’ hierarchies, the absence of the diagram in The Descent of Man may be a significant statement.

Ontological Implications

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Evan F. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ernst Haeckel ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Absolute

Chapter 3 examines the ontological implications of Troeltsch’s eschatological Absolute by considering his critique of pantheistic and monistic conceptions of the Absolute. Monism was an important philosophical force in early twentieth-century religion, popularized by writers such as Ernst Haeckel and radical preachers such as Carl Jatho. Beginning in his own lifetime, some interpreters considered Troeltsch himself a monist or even a sort of pantheist. This chapter clarifies Troeltsch’s commitment to a metaphysical dualism and transcendence by examining critiques of Troeltsch and his responses to them. It also provides an account of the theological context within which various misreadings of Troeltsch circulated.

scholarly journals Ernst Haeckel und die Natur als Künstlerin

BIOspektrum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
Uwe Hoßfeld
Keyword(s):  
Ernst Haeckel
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