The Infanticidal Logic of Evolution and Culture

الغلاف الأمامي
University of Delaware Press, 2007 - 363 من الصفحات
This book argues that, because existence costs (the two words are cognates), any living thing must economize - shift more of its energy costs onto the world, including other living things, than its competitors are able to; that to economize is therefore to engage in exchanges that are sacrificial at their core; and that such economization is infanticidal in its ultimate implications. A. Samuel Kimball is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Florida.
 

المحتوى

Existence Costs
7
The Infanticidal Horizon of Biological Evolution
27
Infanticide and Reproduction in Genesis
67
Refusing the Infanticidal Interpretive Closure in Teleological Readings of Abrahams Sacrifice
95
The Most Common Event in the World Abrahams Sacrifice and the Infanticidity of Being
114
Counterconceiving the Law of the Father
135
Sacrifice Revenge and a Justice Beyond Justice The Odyssey
154
The Wounded Infant and the Infanticidism of the Gods Oedipus Cultural Critique
173
The Infanticidity of Flesh and Word The Eucharistic Revision of Greek Sacrifice
201
Conceptions and Contraceptions of the Future Star Trek Terminator 2 The Matrix and Alien Resurrection
231
Notes
254
Bibliography
315
Index
328
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A. Samuel Kimball is Professor of English at the University of North Florida.

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