{"product_id":"darwins-love-of-life-by-karen-l-harel-9780231208086","title":"Darwin's Love of Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiophilia\u003c\/i\u003e—the love of life—encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin's life and thought in deeply original ways. In a set of interrelated essays, she considers how the love of life enabled him to see otherwise unseen evolutionary truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarel traces the influence of biophilia on Darwin's views of dogs, facts, thought, emotion, and beauty, informed by little-known material from his private notebooks. She argues that much of what Darwin described, envisioned, and felt was biophilia in action. Closing the book is a profile of Darwin's marriage to Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin, a woman gifted in music and medicine who shared her husband's love of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarel's meditative, playful, and lyrical musings draw on the tools of varied disciplines—\u003ci\u003eaesthetics, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, history of science, philosophy, psychiatry,\u003c\/i\u003e and more—while remaining unbounded by any particular one. Taking unexpected paths to recast a figure we thought we knew, this book offers readers a different Darwin: a man full of love, joy, awe, humility, curiosity, and a zest for living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854436389100,"sku":"9780231208086","price":141.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231208086.jpg?v=1759241460","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/darwins-love-of-life-by-karen-l-harel-9780231208086","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}