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Darwin, Freud, and the Myth of the Hero in Science

Glendale College Claremont Graduate School

Arguments about whether heroes in sctence are "great men" or products of their culture rest on a false dichotomy created, in part, by the participants themselves. History may be modeled as a contingency matrix—a massively conditioned and crucially dependent multitude of linkages across space and time. The hero is molded into, and helps to mold the shape of, those connections. A hero in history is a great individual who altered history's contingencies irreversibly. Darwin and Freud provide historical case studies to understand the origin of the hero in science.

Science Communication, Vol. 11, No. 3, 280-301 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/107554709001100305


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