2017-01Thematic Section
Human Nature after Neo-Darwinism

02/09/2017  / 
DOI: 10.26319/EIDOS-001-HUMAN-NATURE

Abstract: In the course of the 20th century the so-called Modern Synthesis of Neo-Darwinism has become the dominant paradigm in modern biology. First, it is explained how and why Darwin’s broad definition of evolution, in which the environment plays an important role, was narrowed down by Neo-Darwinism to a radical gene-centric view. Next, the paradigm shift…

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2017-01Thematic Section
The Human Difference: Beyond Nomotropism

02/09/2017  / 
DOI: 10.26319/EIDOS-001-HUMAN-DIFFERENCE

Abstract: The main theme of this essay is  f i n i t e  l i f e, which is the bedrock of modern biopolitics. In the series of lectures devoted to the ‘birth of biopolitics,’ Michel Foucault defines it as a new system of ‘governing the living’ based on the natural cycle of birth and death, and the law of…

Przemysław Bursztyka