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Article Dans Une Revue Nineteenth-Century French Studies Année : 2000

Transformism, Evolution and Romanticism

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In recent years, there has been a tendency among historians of pre-Darwinian biology in France, notably Goulven Laurent, to see Darwinian evolutionary theory as little more than an advanced version of Lamarck's transformism. This article starts from a critique of that position, and then seeks to elucidate the implications for non-scientific discourses in the period between Lamarck and Darwin. It seeks to demonstrate that the protagonists of the 1830 querelle des analogues – the "fixist Cuvier and the "transformist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – are inappropriately associated respectively with conservatism and progressivism, and, more generally, that French Romantic historiography can be better understood as anticipating an evolutionary mode of thought rather than as developing a transformist mode of thought.
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Richard Somerset. Transformism, Evolution and Romanticism. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 2000, 29 (1-2), pp.1-20. ⟨hal-04168173⟩
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