Research Catalog

Title

The infanticidal logic of evolution and culture / A. Samuel Kimball.

Author

Kimball, A. Samuel, 1959-

Publication

Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2007.

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Description

363 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Infanticide > Religious aspects
• Bible > Genesis > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Infanticide > History
• Infanticide > Social aspects
• Greek literature > History and criticism
• Infanticide in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-357) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- pt. 1. The biological scope of infanticide and the infanticidal -- Existence costs -- The infanticidal horizon of biological evolution -- pt. 2. Infanticide and the infanticidity of being in Genesis -- Infanticide and reproduction in Genesis -- Refusing the infanticidal : interpretive closure in teleological readings of Abraham's sacrifice -- "The most common event in the world" : Abraham's sacrifice and the infanticidity of being -- pt. 3. Counter-conceiving the symbolic order : infanticide and the name of the father -- Counter-conceiving the law of the father -- Sacrifice, revenge, and a justice beyond justice : The odyssey -- The wounded infant and the infanticidism of the gods : Oedipus' cultural critique -- The infanticidity of flesh and word : the eucharistic revision of Greek sacrifice -- pt. 4. The inconceivable future -- Conceptions and contraceptions of the future : Star trek, Terminator 2, The matrix, and Alien resurrection.

Call Number

JFE 07-5421

ISBN

• 9780874139525 (alk. paper)
• 087413952X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006030917

OCLC

71552263

Author

Kimball, A. Samuel, 1959-

Title

The infanticidal logic of evolution and culture / A. Samuel Kimball.

Imprint

Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-357) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-5421