Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

by Elizabeth Grosz

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin's account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin's work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that regulate survival and attractiveness, respectively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350718
• ISBN13: 9780822350712
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"