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Author:

Kimball, A. Samuel, 1959-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

363 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71552263

LCCN:

2006030917

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)