In this volume, Eugene Goodheart attacks the neo-Darwinistapproach to the arts and articulates a powerful defenseof humanist criticism.In a series of chapters, he exposes the crude reductionism of literaryDarwinism, the bad faith and inverted fundamentalism of the Darwinianapproach to religion, and the dangers of the effort to create a Darwinian ethicalsystem.Goodheart’s arguments show that in moving beyond their area of competence,the neo-Darwinists commit an ideology, not a science.
