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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... mind , which produces philosophy , a literature , an art , a science , and which , having renewed human thought , slowly and infallibly renews all human thoughts . . . . And the movement goes on so long as there remains anything to be ...
... mind : " dualism , which holds that mind is a non - physical sub- stance created by the brain but existing apart from it ; and materialism , which considers the mind to be an exclusively physical activity of the brain . ” Within the ...
... mind has been adapted to the world . Rational thought is the mental correlative for the physical order of nature ... mind and body . " Knowledge " is a condition that appertains only to individual minds , and every mental event ...
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