Thursday, April 09, 2009

A New Book--DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM: A DISPUTED QUESTION

Darwinian Conservatism: A Disputed Question, edited by Kenneth Blanchard, is a new book published by Imprint Academic. It will be available sometime in May.

Part One of this book will be a reprint of my Darwinian Conservatism as it was originally published in 2005.

Part Two will be devoted to the following eight "critical responses" to the book:

Neil Blackstone, "Darwinian Conservatism: One Biologist's View"

Lauren Hall, "The Liberated Beast"

Carson Holloway, "Darwinian Conservatism and the First Cause of All Things"

Peter Augustine Lawler, "All Larry Needs is Love (and Death)"

Timothy Sandefur, "Darwinism and the Limitations of Conservatism"

Richard Sherlock, "Darwinism and the Limitations of Naturalism"

Michael Shermer, "Why Christians and Conservatives Should Accept Evolution"

John G. West, "The Misguided Quest for Darwinian Conservatism"


Part Three of the book contains my response to these critics and a final chapter by Blanchard:

Larry Arnhart, "Vindicating Darwinian Conservatism"

Kenneth Blanchard, "Natural Right and Natural Selection"

Blanchard's chapter offers some thoughtful reflections about how Aristotelian natural right might be compatible with Darwinian natural selection.

The whole book is about 300 pages long. It's available for preorder at Amazon.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds great. It's on my wish list now (not pre-ordered due to change in address in June).

-wbond

Kent Guida said...

Will look forward to reading.
By the way, do you have a list of reviews of your books? I missed that one in New Criterion, for example. I'm sure there are at least a few thoughtful comments I could benefit from.

Larry Arnhart said...

Here's my list of the reviews of DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM. I have written posts on most of them.

Bob Cheeks, IntellectualConservative.com

David Ashton, SALISBURY REVIEW, winter 2005

James Seaton, WEEKLY STANDARD, May 8, 2006

Paul Gross, NEW CRITERION, June 2006

Allen Thompson, PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS, April 2006

Cliff Bates, POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, April 2006

Francis Beckwith, REVIEW OF POLITICS, Fall 2006

Paul Crook, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, September 2006

Anthony Flew, RIGHT NOW! September, 2006

Eugene Heath, EUROPEAN LEGACY, vol. 12, no. 1, 2007

Stephen Holt, STUDIES IN BURKE AND HIS TIME, vol. 21, 2007

Timothy Sandefur, REPORTS OF NCSE, May-June, 2006

Thomas Junker, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES, vol. 29, 2007, 249-50