The Infanticidal Logic of Evolution and CultureUniversity of Delaware Press, 2007 - 363 páginas 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. |
Índice
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| 27 | |
Infanticide and Reproduction in Genesis | 67 |
Refusing the Infanticidal Interpretive Closure in Teleological Readings of Abrahams Sacrifice | 95 |
The Most Common Event in the World Abrahams Sacrifice and the Infanticidity of Being | 114 |
Counterconceiving the Law of the Father | 135 |
Sacrifice Revenge and a Justice Beyond Justice The Odyssey | 154 |
The Wounded Infant and the Infanticidism of the Gods Oedipus Cultural Critique | 173 |
The Infanticidity of Flesh and Word The Eucharistic Revision of Greek Sacrifice | 201 |
Conceptions and Contraceptions of the Future Star Trek Terminator 2 The Matrix and Alien Resurrection | 231 |
Notes | 254 |
Bibliography | 315 |
Index | 328 |
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able Abraham According action adaptation Aeschylus alien animal appears becomes beginning biological birth blessing blood body brings chapter child circumcision comes command conceived conception condition consequence cost covenant cultural death Derrida destroy divine earth economization effect enemy ethical evolution evolutionary example existence extinction fact father female figure force fruit future genes Genesis genetic gift give God's gods Greek hand human individual infant infanticidal interpretive Isaac Jesus Jocasta John kill kind king lines literal living logical loss male mark meaning mortal narrative nature never occurs Odysseus Oedipus offering offspring once one's organism parents paternal person position possibility produce question reason relation replication represents reproductive responsibility result ritual sacrifice says selection sexual species story structure success symbolic things thought tion trans turn University Press violence York
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Página 283 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Página 94 - Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mori'ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
Página 65 - Dragon *And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
Página 86 - No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.
Página 91 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Página 108 - By myself I have sworn, says the LORD: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore.
Página 88 - I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians...
Página 75 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.