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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... logic . In this case , his formulation depends on tacitly suppressing the idea of a reciprocal interaction between ... logic is characteristic of Fish , it is certainly not unique to him . It is , for instance , very similar to the logic ...
... logic of human reproduction . As a mechanism crucial to this partici- pation , their imaginative sympathy extends to the motives that animate them . By accepting the systemic logic of reproduction and by subordinating their own behavior ...
... logic . The central purpose of Foucauldian rhetoric is to present all such oppositional constructs as arbitrary and malevolent . For instance , in Disci- pline and Punish , Foucault argues that the acts defined by society as criminal or ...
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Systemic Totalization and Pluralistic Compromise | 40 |
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