From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy [electronic resource] : The Stamp of Inutility /
Solinas, M.author.
From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle's framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle's framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution.
Part I. The Aristolelian teleological tradition. The original framework. Consistency ; To the margins ; Fixed in time ; Tools ; Adaptations ; Means of defence ; Unseeing eyes -- For and against Aristotle. Regrafting and divergences ; Reception and institutionalization ; Rebirth ; Mathematization ; Teleological experimentalism ; Chicks ; Procreations preordained ; The last stronghold -- Indirect supremacy. Persistence ; Long shadows ; Subtext ; Œconomia naturae ; Short shadows -- Part II. The evolutionary revolution. Crisis and hegemony. Under pressure ; Elephant bones ; The challenger ; The last great heir -- Darwin's breakthrough. Haunted ; A hundred thousand wedges ; Barren virgins ; The stamp of inutility ; Metamorphoses ; Variations ; Revolutions ; Genealogies -- Dry branches. Obsolescence ; A double-edged sword ; Techne ; On the cusp ; Archaisms ; Corals ; Circularity ; Revenge. A Double-edged Sword -- 3. Techne -- 4. On the Cusp -- 5. Archaisms -- 6. Corals -- 7. Circularity -- 8. Revenge.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Aristotle.
Philosophy and science.
Evolutionary biology.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy of Science.
Evolutionary Biology.
Classical Philosophy.