The Infanticidal Logic Of Evolution And Culture

Author : A. Samuel Kimball
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139525
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infanticidal Logic of Evolution and Culture written by A. Samuel Kimball and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Annette Trefzer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604733543
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Faulkner written by Annette Trefzer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, debates about globalization raise both hopes and fears. But what about during William Faulkner's time? Was he aware of worldwide cultural, historical, and economic developments? Just how interested was Faulkner in the global scheme of things? The contributors to Global Faulkner suggest that a global context is helpful for recognizing the broader international meanings of Faulkner's celebrated regional landscape. Several scholars address how the flow of capital from the time of slavery through the Cold War period in his fiction links Faulkner's South with the larger world. Other authors explore the literary similarities that connect Faulkner's South to Latin America, Africa, Spain, Japan, and the Caribbean. In essays by scholars from around the world, Faulkner emerges in trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific contexts, in a pan-Caribbean world, and in the space of the Middle Passage and the African Atlantic. The Nobel laureate's fiction is linked to that of such writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Wole Soyinka, Miguel de Cervantes, and Kenji Nakagami.

Author : Keith Moser
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004436359
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory written by Keith Moser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise Imagination and Art propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms.

Author : Brian W. Nail
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429602111
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law's Sacrifice written by Brian W. Nail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice as a crucial nexus for theorizing the dynamics of creation, destruction, transcendence, and violence within the philosophical and legal discourse of western society. At a time of populist political unrest, what philosophical and theoretical resources are available for conceptualizing the discontent that seems to emanate from practically every sphere of society? What narrative strategies have been employed within literary, theological, philosophical, and legal discourse to tame or mystify human violence? Engaging with the work of preeminent theorists of sacrifice, such as Georges Bataille, René Girard, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Derrida this collection examines from an interdisciplinary perspective the sacrificial logic that characterizes the cultural and political dynamics of law in society. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of legal theory and philosophy.

Author : Tim Tyler
Publisher : Tim Tyler
ISBN 13 : 1461035260
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memetics written by Tim Tyler and published by Tim Tyler. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memetics is the name commonly given to the study of memes - a term originally coined by Richard Dawkins to describe small inherited elements of human culture. Memes are the cultural equivalent of DNA genes - and memetics is the cultural equivalent of genetics. Memes have become ubiquitous in the modern world - but there has been relatively little proper scientific study of how they arise, spread and change - apparently due to turf wars within the social sciences and misguided resistance to Darwinian explanations being applied to human behaviour. However, with the modern explosion of internet memes, I think this is bound to change. With memes penetrating into every mass media channel, and with major companies riding on their coat tails for marketing purposes, social scientists will surely not be able to keep the subject at arm's length for much longer. This will be good - because an understanding of memes is important. Memes are important for marketing and advertising. They are important for defending against marketing and advertising. They are important for understanding and managing your own mind. They are important for understanding science, politics, religion, causes, propaganda and popular culture. Memetics is important for understanding the origin and evolution of modern humans. It provides insight into the rise of farming, science, industry, technology and machines. It is important for understanding the future of technological change and human evolution. This book covers the basic concepts of memetics, giving an overview of its history, development, applications and the controversy that has been associated with it.

Author : Aaron R. Denham
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299311201
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Children written by Aaron R. Denham and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of the spirit children phenomenon in northern Ghana, placing infanticide in both a deeply nuanced local context and a global public health framework.

Author : Dion Sommer
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771840591
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Care, Socialization and Play in Ancient Attica written by Dion Sommer and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on children and childhood in ancient Greece is a field in its infancy. This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach called Developmental Childhood Archaeology. In essence it is an archaeological study based on a collection of material relation to childhood in ancient Attica, dating back to 480-300 B.C. That is, various types of toys, iconographic evidence of children on vases and graves steles, primary written sources on children's lives, and the view on children in the Greek Classical period.

Author : Salman Akhtar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0765709767
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Stuff written by Salman Akhtar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By elucidating the origins, dynamics, social pleasures, and clinical benefits of courage, resilience, gratitude, generosity, forgiveness, and sacrifice, Good Stuff sheds light on a corner of human experience that has remained inadequately understood by psychoanalysts and other...

Author : S. Trimble
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593662
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undead Ends written by S. Trimble and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undead Ends is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what, exactly, is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take center stage, and why? And how do these films, sometimes in spite of themselves, make room to dream of new beginnings that don’t just reboot the world we know? Trimble argues that contemporary apocalypse films aren’t so much envisioning The End of the world as the end of a particular world; not The End of humanness but, rather, the end of Man. Through readings of The Road, I Am Legend, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Children of Men, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, this book demonstrates that popular stories of apocalypse can trouble, rather than reproduce, Man’s story of humanness. With some creative re-reading, they can even unfold towards unexpected futures. Mainstream apocalypse films are, in short, an occasion to imagine a world After Man.

Author : Ananta Ch. Sukla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472575059
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiction and Art written by Ananta Ch. Sukla and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas. This volume offers something entirely new: a selection of multidisciplinary perspectives on fiction written by an international team of contributors at the forefront of their fields, providing a spectrum of approaches to compare and contrast. This volume, divided between historical, cognitive, aesthetic and non-western approaches, targets a wide range of topics, including mathematics, history, religion and metaphysics. This is a seminal volume on one of the most important topics in the humanities.