The Infanticidal Logic of Evolution and CultureUniversity of Delaware Press, 2007 - 363 էջ 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. |
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The Infanticidal Horizon of Biological Evolution | 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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