Neofinalism / Raymond Ruyer ; translated by Alyosha Edlebi ; introduction by Mark B.N. Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruyer, Raymond, 1902-1987, author.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 36.

Posthumanities

Standardized Title:

Néo-finalisme. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Teleology.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

xxi, 300 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Contents:

1 The Axiological Cogito 1

2 Description of Finalist Activity 8

3 Finalist Activity and Organic Life 16

4 The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism 23

5 Finalist Activity and the Nervous System 34

6 The Brain and the Embryo 45

7 Signification of Equipotentiality 68

8 The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and "Material" Existence 76

9 "Absolute Surfaces" and Absolute Domains of Survey 90

10 Absolute Domains and Bonds 104

11 Absolute Domains and Finality 111

12 The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual 124

13 The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity 134

14 The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe 140

15 The Neomaterialist Theories 154

16 Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection 163

17 Neo-Darwinism and Genetics 179

18 Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality 190

19 Psycho-Lamarckism 210

20 Theology of Finality 223.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816692040

0816692041

9780816692057

081669205X

OCLC:

918562829

Publisher Number:

40025793127