Darwin in social context? Ric Brown’s fascinating survey of some important contemporaries

Until Darwin “Syllabus: Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (Pratt Institute, Fall 2015)”

Ric has been teaching this course for years and at some point I need to sit in. It presents a fascinating look at four very important thinkers that greatly influenced the trajectory of the twentieth century. I think that it is particularly interesting to see Darwin’s work placed in social context. A lot of evolutionary biologists who scratch their heads wondering why the general public is so ambivalent about evolution could benefit from thinking in the way this course does.