Becoming Undone Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth Grosz ]

＜p＞In ＜em＞Becoming Undone＜/em＞, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related conceptsーlife, politics, and artーby exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that regulate survival and attractiveness, respectively. Sexual selection complicates natural selection by introducing aesthetic factors and the expression of individual will, desire, or pleasure. Grosz explores how Darwin’s theory of sexual selection transforms philosophy, our understanding of humanity in its male and female forms, our ideas of political relations, and our concepts of art. Connecting the naturalist’s work to the writings of Bergson, Deleuze, and Irigaray, she outlines a postmodern Darwinism that understands all of life as forms of competing and coordinating modes of open．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る