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The Whole Creature

By Wendy Wheeler

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The Whole Creature

By Wendy Wheeler

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In this ground-breaking synthesis of evolutionary and cultural theory, Wendy Wheeler draws on the new field of complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics in order to argue that - far from being opposed to nature - culture is the way that nature has evolved in human beings. Her argument is that these evolutionary processes reveal the fundamental sociality of human creatures, and she thus rejects the selfish individualism that is implied both in the biological reductionism of much recent evolutionary psychology, and in the philosophies of neoliberalism. She shows, instead, that the complex structures of biosemiotic evolution have always involved a creativity which is born from the difficult but productive phenomenological encounter between the Self and its Others; and she argues that this creativity, in both the sciences and the humanities, is fundamental to human progress. In this major contribution to both cultural studies and ecocriticism, Wheeler shows how complexity and biosemiotics forge the link between nature and culture, and provide a new and better understanding of how ''the whole human creature'' operates as both social and biological being.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
174
Release Date:
2006-12-30
Publication Date:
2006-04-06
Publisher:
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1905007302
ISBN13:
9781905007301
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
240 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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