From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy The Stamp of Inutility

By: Marco Solinas(Author)

192 pages, biography

Publisher: Palgrave

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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 ARISTOTELIAN TELEOLOGICAL TRADITION
The Original Framework
1. Consistency
2. To the Margins
3. Fixed in Time
4. Tools
5. Adaptations
6. Means of Defence
7. Unseeing Eyes

For and Against Aristotle
1. Regrafting and Divergences
2. Reception and Institutionalization
3. Rebirth
4. Mathematization
5. Teleological Experimentalism
6. Chicks
7. Procreations Preordained
8. The Last Stronghold

Indirect Supremacy
1. Persistence
2. Long Shadows
3. Subtext
4. Oeconomia naturae
5. Short Shadows

PART II: THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION
Crisis and Hegemony
1. Under Pressure
2. Elephant Bones
3. The Challenger
4. The Last Great Heir

Darwin's Breakthrough
1. Haunted
2. A Hundred Thousand Wedges
3. Barren Virgins
4. The Stamp of Inutility
5. Metamorphoses
6. Variations
7. Revolutions
8. Genealogies

Dry Branches
1. Obsolescence
2. A Double-edged Sword
3. Techne
4. On the Cusp
5. Archaisms
6. Corals
7. Circularity
8. Revenge

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Biography

Marco Solinas holds the National Scientific Qualification as Professor of Philosophy; he has studied and researched in Florence, Nottingham, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Paris. He has written articles in important international reviews, and is author of Psiche: Platone e Freud (2008), also published in German with the title Via Platonica zum Unbewussten (2012).

By: Marco Solinas(Author)

192 pages, biography

Publisher: Palgrave

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"Solinas has written a concise, penetrating study of the philosophical underpinnings of natural history in Europe from Aristotle through Darwin. And he offers a perceptive analysis of how it was that history came to be fundamental to our understanding of the living world."
– Greg Priest, ISIS, Vol. 108 (04), December 2017

"It offers a bird's eye view of this long period, focusing on three philosophical pillars sustaining Aristotle's conception of natural world: fixism, essentialism, and teleology. [...] this book presents a didactic union between historic and philosophic approaches that will be of interest to biologists, historians, philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and general public. [...] the book makes a substantial contribution to connecting history, philosophy, and the psychology of evolutionary thinking."
– Marco A. C. Varella, Human Ethology Bulletin, Vol. 31(2), 2016

"The translation is excellent and keeps the deep meanings and the fine taste of the dense prose of the young Italian philosopher. [...] the book is a very important contribution to the understanding of the roots of many modern biological discussions, offering a thoughtful reinterpretation of the movement, plenty of dense theoretical and philosophical consequences, from a figure of static nature seen as perfect and plenty of useful adaptations towards imperfections and inutilities of an ever-changing world."
– Nelio Bizzo, Medicina & Storia, Vol. 15(8), 2015

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