Revisiting the Left-Wing Response to Sociobiology: The Case of Finland in a European Context
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- 作者：Antti Lepist?
- 关键词：Sociobiology ; Evolutionism ; The Cold War ; The academic left ; Peace biology ; Finland
- 刊名：Journal of the History of Biology
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：February 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：48
- 期：1
- 页码：99-136
- 全文大小：333 KB
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- 刊物主题：Philosophy
Philosophy of Biology - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-0387
文摘
This article revisits the left-wing response to sociobiology in the 1970s and 1980s by examining the sociobiology debate in Finland in a larger European context. It argues that the Finnish academic left’s response to sociobiology represents a “third way-alongside the purely negative, often Marxist denial of biology’s relevance, which characterized the left’s response to sociobiology in many European countries such as Hungary and Sweden, and alongside the disregard that sociobiology confronted in most parts of Eastern Europe, as well as in Germany. In the context of the last great political conflict of the Cold War in Europe, the controversy over the American “Euromissiles-(Pershing II and Tomahawk) in 1979-983, the Finnish academic left challenged the allegedly fatalistic sociobiological aggression and war theories with an alternative biological language, turning the increasing enthusiasm over evolutionary ideas into a pacifist cause. Using leftist and pacifist forums to inform citizens and politicians of such biologically evolved human characteristics as mutual care and sociability, the Finnish critics of sociobiology wished to boost the public spirit, and to rationalize the pacifist ideal of the European-wide popular movement against nuclear weapons and militarism. As a result, the academic leftists in Finland revived the early twentieth-century tradition of “peace biology.-A proper understanding of this development calls for an analysis that acknowledges Finland’s special geopolitical and cultural position in the Cold War world between East and West.