TY - JOUR
T1 - Supplementing claire colebrook
T2 - A response to "Creative evolution and the creation of man"
AU - Anderson, Nicole
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - In her paper "Creative Evolution and the Creation of Man," one of the arguments Colebrook puts forth is that as a means of challenging the mechanistic and teleological conception of Darwinian evolution, creative evolution takes an antihumanist position by positing that there is an absence of end, thus "man" is able to create his own end. But in taking this position, Colebrook points out that creative evolution re-establishes the humanistic discourse on the human that it was attempting to challenge. To elucidate Colebrook's argument, this paper draws on the work of Derrida to "play" with the notion of style in order to reflect on the ways in which philosophical deductive argumentation and reasoning constitute and perpetuate humanist and metaphysical discourses on the human, and the ends of "man".
AB - In her paper "Creative Evolution and the Creation of Man," one of the arguments Colebrook puts forth is that as a means of challenging the mechanistic and teleological conception of Darwinian evolution, creative evolution takes an antihumanist position by positing that there is an absence of end, thus "man" is able to create his own end. But in taking this position, Colebrook points out that creative evolution re-establishes the humanistic discourse on the human that it was attempting to challenge. To elucidate Colebrook's argument, this paper draws on the work of Derrida to "play" with the notion of style in order to reflect on the ways in which philosophical deductive argumentation and reasoning constitute and perpetuate humanist and metaphysical discourses on the human, and the ends of "man".
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U2 - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2010.00025.x
DO - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2010.00025.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956158059
SN - 0038-4283
VL - 48
SP - 133
EP - 146
JO - Southern Journal of Philosophy
JF - Southern Journal of Philosophy
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -