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    Evolution and degeneration in the thought of Roger Casement.


    O Siochain, Seamas (1997) Evolution and degeneration in the thought of Roger Casement. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 2. pp. 45-62.

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    Abstract

    Biographers have tended to stress the element of emotional instability in the personality of Roger Casement. Instability, however, is made to appear greater to the extent that some of the significant contexts of his life and the patterns of his thought are neglected. The present essay explores one such patterning of thought: ideas of evolution and degeneration, or progress and decay, in his thinking with regard to a range of societies: Ancient Rome, the peoples of Africa and South America, Britain and Germany, and Ireland. The essay draws on recent work on degeneration in the history of ideas.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Roger Casement
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology
    Item ID: 58
    Depositing User: Dr. Seamas O Siochain
    Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2002
    Journal or Publication Title: Irish Journal of Anthropology
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/58
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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