Book Reports on Out-of-Date Books: Darwin Durkheim Smith

Presenter: Michael Barry

Session Description:

I am reading a few so-called Great Books, or chapters of them anyway, in disciplines adjacent to my own. Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, and Adam Smith. What do I gain from it? I don’t know until I do it, but there will be something. Actually, I do know already, a little. Darwin’s “Struggle for Existence” is less about a struggle between species and more about struggle between individual members of the same species. I’m sure that some of those in attendance will have more expertise than I do.

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