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Article: Do we need literary Darwinism?(Responses)
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In his essay, "The Sleep of Reason" the philosopher Thomas Nagel remarks: "[Postmodernism] may be on the way out, but I suspect that there will continue to be a market in the huge American academy for a quick fix of some kind. If it is not social constructionism, it will be something else--Darwinian explanations of practically everything else" (Patai and Corral 552). Now associated with extraordinary advances in genetics, Darwinism promises a scientific understanding of any and all disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. Think of postmodern skepticism about words like "truth" and "reality." The neo-Darwinian approach removes the quotation marks that ...
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