From Aristotle's teleology to Darwin's genealogy : the stamp of inutility / Marco Solinas ; translated by James Douglas.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, © 2015Description: X, 182 strony ; 23 cmContent type:- Text
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- Impronta dell'inutilità. English
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Translation of: L'impronta dell'inutilitáa : dalla teleologia di Aristotele alle genealogie di Darwin. ©2012.
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Bibliografia na stronach 167-176. Indeks.
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.
Translated from the Italian.