Kropotkin between Lamarck and Darwin: the impossible synthesis
[EN] Prince P.A. Kropotkin (1842-1921) was the most important leader of revolutionary anarchism of his generation. He was also a respected explorer, geographer, and wrote a variety of books on the French Revolution, prison systems and Russian literature. However, he is better known for his contribut...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2003 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/5965 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5965 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Kropotkin, Piotr Alexéievich Darwinism Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Anarchism Genetics Darwinismo Anarquismo Genética |
| Resumo: | [EN] Prince P.A. Kropotkin (1842-1921) was the most important leader of revolutionary anarchism of his generation. He was also a respected explorer, geographer, and wrote a variety of books on the French Revolution, prison systems and Russian literature. However, he is better known for his contribution to the debate on Social Darwinism, exemplified by his book "Mutual Aid. A Factor Evolution" (1902). Actually, Kropotkin was trying to build his own brand of evolutionary Ethics: a complete socio-biology consistent with revolutionary goals. But there was a serious obstacle. The presence of the Malthusian population laws at the very core of Darwinism blocked any potential progress in this direction. Kropotkin tried to extirpate the Malthusian sting by making a critical analysis of natural selection and proposing a synthesis between Lamarck and Darwin in the 1910s. |
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