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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
- 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
- 200200 Cultural Studies
- 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. Department of Media, Music, and Cultural Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/150710
- Identifier
- mq:16823
- Identifier
- ISSN:2041-6962
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009011777
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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