Aping Mankind

a review by Mark Anthony Signorelli (September 2011)

Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
by Raymond Tallis
Acumen Pub. Ltd. (2011)
416 pp.
 

If the imperialist ambitions of Neuromania and Darwinitis were fully realized, they would swallow the image of humanity in the science of biology. Our distinctive nature, our freedom, our selfhood and even human society would be reduced to the properties of living matter, and this in turn would be ripe to be reduced, via molecular biology, to matter period. So it is particularly sickening that the humanities, traditionally a bulwark against the encroaching tides of scientism, have proved so willing to collaborate with the invaders.

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