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- Title
The Darwinian Rhetoric of Science in Petr Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. A Factor of Evolution (1902).
- Authors
Nicolosi, Riccardo
- Abstract
The paper explores the significance of rhetorical argumentation in Petr Kropotkin's treatise Mutual Aid. A Factor of Evolution (1902). It argues that Kropotkin's work is steeped in the tradition of a rhetoric of science that is profoundly Darwinian and in which various forms of analogic reasoning play a central role. After explaining the epistemic function of the metaphors "struggle for existence" and "mutual aid," the paper analyses Kropotkin's argumentation strategies and offers an interpretation of them as a further development and reworking of Darwinian rhetoric.
- Subjects
KROPOTKIN, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz, 1842-1921; DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882; RHETORIC; AUTHORSHIP; METAPHOR
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 1, p141
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bewi.201900023