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Do we need literary Darwinism?(Responses)
In his essay, "The Sleep of Reason" the philosopher Thomas Nagel remarks: "[Postmodernism] may be on the way out, but I suspect that there will continue to be a market in the huge American academy for a quick fix of some kind. If it is not social constructionism, it will be something else--Darwinian explanations of practically everything else" (Patai and Corral 552). Now associated with extraordinary advances in genetics, Darwinism promises a scientific understanding of any and all disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. Think of postmodern skepticism about words like "truth" and "reality." The neo-Darwinian approach removes the quotation marks that ...
- Beyond words: can literary Darwinism address the unsaid and inexpressible in...
- Magazine article from: Style Dissanayake, Ellen June 22, 2008 700+ words
...own edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species) and evolutionary psychology as well as an enormous amount of Western literature...target article about the emerging field that is called Literary Darwinism or Darwinian (evolutionary, adaptationist) literary...
- Reflections on literary Darwinism.(Responses)
- Magazine article from: Style Salmon, Catherine June 22, 2008 700+ words
...accomplishments of this fresh approach to literature. Unsurprisingly, I approve of the endeavor, being a PhD in evolutionary psychology who started out majoring in biology with a minor in comparative literature. Back in the day, I loved those...
- The bottlenecks of literary Darwinism.(Responses)
- Magazine article from: Style Mallory-Kani, Amy Womack, Kenneth June 22, 2008 700+ words
In his book, Literary Darwinism, Professor Carroll observes...findings" (16). Couldn't literary Darwinism afford its practitioners similar...irrationalism and indeterminacy" (Literary, Darwinism 27) remarks that deconstructive...
- Literary Darwinism as science and myth.
- Magazine article from: Style Seamon, Roger June 22, 2008 700+ words
The program of Darwinian literary study (DLS) that Joseph Carroll advances in "An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study" encompasses a number of projects whose relationships are unclear, whose ambitions are unrealizable, and whose interpretive power is weak. However, the most disturbing aspect
- Why evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation or "just so" stories: with...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology Eisenman, Russell August 1, 2003 700+ words
...some of its opponents claim, evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation, or...were once somewhat true, when evolutionary psychology was called sociobiology. In the...Wilson, 1975) has evolved into evolutionary psychology, with its emphasis on how the...
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
Evolutionary Psychology Evolutionary psychology proposes a set of evolved psychological mechanisms...sciences and improve their explanatory capabilities. Evolutionary psychology is related to human sociobiology but evolutionary...
- Bad behaviour; Evolutionary psychology.(!)(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 27, 2001 700+ words
...POOR DARWIN: ARGUMENTS AGAINST EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY. ACCORDING to evolutionary psychology, most of our actions, emotions...and anthropologists, condemn evolutionary psychology as a flagrant abuse of Darwinism...
- Will Evolutionary Psychology Grow Up?
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Holcomb III, Harmon R. December 22, 2000 700+ words
...used for purposes of testing. In evolutionary psychology explanations of human natural...Negatively, I shall argue here that evolutionary psychology is not a mature science on several...Unless they do so, I worry that evolutionary psychology will never become a mature science...
