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Becoming undone : Darwinian reflections on life, politics, and art

by Elizabeth Grosz

This text examines Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories to analyse the relationship between life, politics, and art. It explores the distinction between natural and sexual selection to develop a feminist understanding of biology, nature, and time.

Accession 11790 ISBN 9780822350538 Publisher Duke University Press
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"Challenging characterizations of Darwin's work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that regulate survival and attractiveness, respectively. Sexual selection complicates natural selection by introducing aesthetic factors and the expression of individual will, desire, or pleasure." --blurb

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