At Home in the World: Human Nature, Ecological Thought, and Education After Darwin

by Eilon Schwartz

Challenging conventional understanding of humans as selfish and competitive at their core, At Home in the World asserts that we have evolved as a profoundly social species, biologically related to the rest of the natural world, and at home on the only planet for which we are adapted to live. Eilon Schwartz traces the history of Darwinism, examining attempts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to apply Darwin's theories to educational philosophy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438426259
• ISBN13: 9781438426259
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"