Naturalism

Naturalism was a mainly unorganized literary movement that sought to depict believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic or even supernatural treatment.

Naturalism was an outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere. Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. They often believed that one's heredity and social environment largely determine one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as
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Thérèse Raquin
Germinal
Nana
Sister Carrie
The Call of the Wild
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
Of Mice and Men
L'Assommoir
The Jungle
La Bête humaine
The Age of Innocence
O Cortiço
The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
The House of Mirth
Introduction to the Study of Insects by Donald Joyce BorrorThe Life-Story of Insects by George H. CarpenterThe Wonders of Instinct by Jean-Henri FabreInsects and their Plants by Fr. James M. SullivanSocial Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre
Notable Books in Entomology
6 books — 4 voters
Bauhaus by Jeannine FiedlerThe Quest for College Heights by Sherman LewisThe Indiscipline of Painting /anglais by CLARCK MARTINFinding Vincent by Les FurnanzWild by Graham Boynton
Art -‘isms’ of the 20th Century
103 books — 5 voters

Enlightenment Now by Steven PinkerThe Rational Optimist by Matt RidleyThe Birth of Plenty  by William J. BernsteinThe Moral Arc by Michael ShermerThe Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Polemics for Progress
14 books — 6 voters
Life after Death in a Nutshell by Else ByskovThe Best Available Evidence for the Survival of Human Conscio... by Else ByskovKey Life Lessons from Martinus, the Modern Mystic by Else ByskovThe Earth, the Universe and God in a Cosmic Perspective by Else ByskovThe Cambridge Companion to Atheism by Michael Martin
Philosophical atheism
122 books — 24 voters

Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. BeheSignature in the Cell by Stephen C. MeyerDarwin's Doubt by Stephen C. MeyerIcons of Evolution by Jonathan WellsThe Design of Life by William A. Dembski
Best Books against Darwinism
200 books — 61 voters
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonMiddlemarch by George EliotMcTeague by Frank Norris
Naturalism and Realism
128 books — 23 voters

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody. ”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

Wolfgang Pauli
“ Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry from the contents of religion. I don't believe Einstein is tied to any religious tradition, and I rather think the idea of a personal God is entirely foreign to him. ...more ”
― Wolfgang Pauli

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