Freedom and the Human in “Evolutionary” Political Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12420082 |
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| Authors | Elisabeth Anker (0000-0001-7284-223X, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 453-456 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912914523347 |
| OpenAlex | W2079402588 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
“Evolutionary” political theory is a dynamic process of scholarship that collides disparate ideas into each other to form new, symbiogenetic concepts that were previously unthinkable. As evolutionary political theory, “Species Evolution and Cultural Freedom” enacts the dynamics of species evolution the essay examines, colliding theories of freedom into theories of evolution to offer new ways of imagining the self. Yet I argue that the essay’s evolutionary argument moves beyond the “self” to untether freedom from the human and to redefine the human as the symbiogenetic effect of colliding force fields: both human and nonhuman, cultural and environmental, genetic and evolutionary
Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Culture theory · Epistemology · Evolutionary theory · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
| Highly cited | No |
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