Evolution and Literary TheoryCarroll anatomizes the irrationalism of current literary theory with surgical precision. In a concise, lucid prose, he lays bare the sophistries at the heart of the doctrines propounded by Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Greenblatt, Eagleton, J. Hillis Miller, Fish, and many others. In opposition to the textualism and indeterminacy that constitute the central doctrines of poststructuralism, Carroll affiliates himself with a realist and naturalist tradition of thought that runs from Darwin and Huxley, through Leslie Stephen and Thorstein Veblen, to Konrad Lorenz and Karl Popper. He offers a comprehensive synthesis of current evolutionary theory in the human sciences, and he shows why the evolutionary paradigm provides the only adequate source for a modern theory of culture. |
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... characteristics . These characteristics have a certain stability , since evolutionary change is slow , but they interact with varying environments so as to result in varying phenotypic expressions . In E. O. Wilson's formulation ...
... characteristics or genotypes vary among individuals , between the sexes , and among races . Any given cultural order ... characteristics and can even reverse their average group characteristics . If we again take sexual identity as a ...
... characteristics applies also to any characteristic - emotional , intellectual , or moral — that is differentiated by biological sex . It is thus profoundly misleading to speak of characteristics of behavior in males or females strictly ...
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Systemic Totalization and Pluralistic Compromise | 40 |
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