Ronald Edwards

The Edge of Evolution

Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau

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Produktbeschreibung

The book presents a re-reading of H. G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau as a key to addressing the controversies of our own humanity. It raises the issue: without human exceptionalism, where do ethics come from?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780190212094
• ISBN-10: 0190212098
• Artikelnr.: 47863362

Autorenporträt

Ron Edwards is an author and most recently served as an Assistant Professor, DePaul University

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: NOT MEANT TO KNOW
Chapter 1: The Paw
Taking exception / Science and fiction / Science fiction
Chapter 2: The Ism that Wasn't
It does not please you / Darwin in the middle / Two windows
Chapter 3: Don't Meddle
Movies and Moreau / Sorcery / Life science
PART TWO: THE THING IS AN ABOMINATION
Chapter 4: The House of Pain
No pain, no gain / Moreau 1, Prendick 0 / Pain is real
Chapter 5: Into the Lab and Onto the Slab
In the book / How / But why
PART THREE: POOR BEASTS
Chapter 6: All the Difference
Moreau's Man / Prendick's gaze / "No!" / The virago
Chapter 7: To the Beasts You May Go
No threshold / Selection and its discontents / The Valley
PART FOUR: NO ESCAPE
Chapter 8: That is the Law
Whose Law? / Hell is real / The Jesus moment / The rebel
Chapter 9: Beast Monsters
The taste of blood / The stubborn beast flesh / The horror
Chapter 10: Big Thinks
Suffering and philosophy / Science and humanity