The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler

摘要

To put it succinctly, this book is an attempt at popularizing the arguments that Darwin was a racist and that Hitler’s National Socialist ideas derived from Darwinism. There is nothing original about this line of reasoning. From Darwin to Hitler has by now become a common expression among certain historians of science; a few years ago, Richard Weikart penned his admonition of Darwinism’s impact on Nazism’s worldview under the same title. Admittedly, André Pichot had already published his book in French in 2001, being, in fact, one of the most consistent advocates of the current re-evaluation of Darwin’s historical legacy.