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Title: Supplementing Claire Colebrook : a response to 'Creative Evolution and the Creation of Man'
Related: Spindel Conference (28th : 2010) (24 - 26 September 2009 : Memphis)
Related: Mader, Mary Beth. The Southern Journal of Philosophy : The Sexes of Evolution: Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and Evolutionary Theory, Vol. 48, Issue Supplement s1, p.133-146
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2010.00025.x
Publisher: Charlottesville, VA : University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200204 Cultural Theory 220317 Poststructuralism 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Author/Creator: Anderson, Nicole
Description: Volume 34, Spindel Supplement. In her paper 'Creative Evolution and the Creation of Man', one of the arguments Colebrook puts forth is that as a means of challenging the mechanistic and teleological conception of Darwinian evolution, creative evolution takes an antihumanist position by positing that there is an absence of end, thus 'man' is able to create his own end. But in taking this position, Colebrook points out that creative evolution re-establishes the humanistic discourse on the human that it was attempting to challenge. To elucidate Colebrook's argument, this paper draws on the work of Derrida to 'play' with the notion of style in order to reflect on the ways in which philosophical deductive argumentation and reasoning constitute and perpetuate humanist and metaphysical discourses on the human, and the ends of 'man'.
Description: 14 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200204 Cultural Theory
Subject Keyword: 220317 Poststructuralism
Subject Keyword: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Subject Keyword: evolution
Subject Keyword: deconstruction
Subject Keyword: Bergson
Subject Keyword: Derrida
Subject Keyword: art
Subject Keyword: philosophy
Subject Keyword: feminism
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media, Music, and Cultural Studies

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/150710
Identifier: ISSN:2041-6962
Identifier: mq-rm-2009011777
Language: eng
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