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UNINA9910159427403321 |
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McIntosh Steve |
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Evolution's Purpose : An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (486 p.) |
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Evolution - Origin |
Cosmogony |
Cosmology |
Evolution (Biology) |
Human evolution |
Evolutionary psychology |
Human beings |
Philosophy |
Philosophy & Religion |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Role of Philosophy; Where I Stand; The Evolution of Worldviews; Overview of the Chapters; 1 The New Picture of Evolution; Defining Evolution; Emergence and Transcendence; What Causes Emergence?; The Evolution of Consciousness; Developmental Psychology; 2 Necessary Metaphysics for an Evolutionary Worldview; The Evolution of Metaphysics; How Metaphysics Is Used in the Science of Evolution; Toward a More Adequate Form of Evolutionary Metaphysics; The Influence of Information on Evolution |
The Self-Organization ParadigmAdaptive Mutation; Morphic Resonance; Intelligent Design; The Influence of Value on Evolution; Values and Agency; Values and Free Will; The Evolution of Values; 3 Eros-Value Gravity; The Reality of Values; Moral Realism; Values as Evolutionary Attractors; Values as Relational Structures; The Gravity of Disvalues; |
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The Sovereignty of the Good; Evolution's Dialectical Pattern; 4 Primary Values-Beauty, Truth, and Goodness; The Philosophical Pedigree of the Primary Values; The Dialectical Relationship of the Beautiful, the True, and the Good |
The Teleology of Beauty, Truth, and GoodnessBeauty, Truth, and Goodness-Perfectly Minimal Evolutionary Metaphysics; 5 Evolutionary Progress in Human History; The Idea of Progress; The Dialectic of Progress and Pathology; Elements of Progress; Value Relativism; Sources of Moral Authority; A New Definition of Social and Cultural Progress; Justifying Claims for Cultural Evolution; 6 Evolutionary Progress in Nature; Progress in Biological Evolution Overall; Measuring Directionality in Biological Evolution; Progress and Prejudice; The Value of Wholes and Parts; Biocentric Egalitarianism |
Anthropocentrism and the Value of the NoosphereProgress in Cosmological Evolution; Progress and Teleology; 7 Purpose in Evolution; The Experience of Purpose; Evidence for Purpose in Evolution; Purpose in the Pattern-Evolution's Generation of Value; The Rising Flow of Creativity; Parallels Between Personal and Universal Development; Consideration of the Purpose of the Whole; Instrumental Purpose; Intrinsic Purpose; Purpose and Dialectical Synthesis; The Purpose of Suffering; 8 Spiritual Reflections on Evolution's Purpose; A Dialectical Thesis of Experiential Perfection through Evolution |
Ten Tenets of Evolutionary TheologyDiscussion of the Ten Tenets; Last Thoughts on the First Cause; 9 The Promise of a New Evolutionary Worldview; The Evolutionary Authenticity of the Postmodern Worldview; Next Steps for Cultural Evolution; Elements of an Evolutionary Worldview; A New Ontology; A New Epistemology; A New Set of Values; A Second Enlightenment; Value Dynamics within Cultural Evolution; Values as a Leading Line of Development; The Internal Cultural Ecosystem; The "Holarchic Principle" of Cultural Evolution; Evolutionary Politics; Near-Term Goals; Long-Term Goals |
Evolutionary Spirituality |
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Does the science of evolution really prove that life, humanity, and the universe as a whole are meaningless accidents? On the contrary, as science has increasingly shown how everything in the universe is subject to evolution-including matter, life, and human culture-these very facts reveal that the process of evolution is unmistakably progressive. |
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UNINA9910136646003321 |
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Autore |
Castle Terry |
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Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / / Terry Castle |
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Cornell University Press, 1982 |
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Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , 1982 |
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©1982 |
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9781501706936 |
1501706934 |
9781501706943 |
1501706942 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 pages) |
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Reader-response criticism |
Rape victims in literature |
Women and literature - England - History - 18th century |
Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism |
Anthologies |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliography: p. 189-196. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 . Clarissa by Halves -- 2. Discovering Reading -- 3. Reading the Letter, Reading the World -- 4. Interrupting "Miss Clary" -- 5. Denatured Signs -- 6. The Voyage Out -- 7. The Death of the Author: Clarissa's Coffin -- 8. The Death of the Author: Richardson and the Reader -- 9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives -- Bibliographic Postscript -- Index |
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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By |
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tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading. |
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