{"product_id":"from-darwin-to-hitler-evolutionary-ethics-eugenics-and-racism-in-germany-9781403972019","title":"From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany","description":"In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. Weikart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781403972019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRICHARD WEIKART is an Associate Professor of Modern European History, California State University, Stanislaus, USA. He has had two previous books published, including \u003cem\u003eSocialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), as well as articles in \u003cem\u003eGerman Studies Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJournal of the History of Ideas, Isis, European Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHistory of European Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44306071453811,"sku":"9781403972019","price":286.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5f3c6f63-f39d-4b30-9124-48b10ae30d46.jpg?v=1770989354","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/from-darwin-to-hitler-evolutionary-ethics-eugenics-and-racism-in-germany-9781403972019","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}