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The Edge of Evolution : Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190212100
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Edge of EvolutionDDC classification:
  • 823.912
LOC classification:
  • PR5774.I83 -- .E393 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- The Edge of  Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I NOT MEANT TO KNOW -- 1. The Paw -- Taking Exception -- Science and Fiction -- Science Fiction -- 2. The -ism That Wasn't -- It Does Not Please You -- Darwin in the Middle -- Two Windows -- 3. Don't Meddle -- Movies and Moreau -- Sorcery -- Life Science -- PART II THE THING IS AN ABOMINATION -- 4. The House of Pain -- No Pain, No Gain -- Moreau 1, Prendick 0 -- Pain Is Real -- 5. Into the Lab and Onto the Slab -- How -- But Why -- PART III POOR BRUTES -- 6. All the Difference -- Moreau's Man -- Prendick's Gaze -- "No!" -- The Virago -- 7. To the Beasts You May Go -- No Threshold -- Selection and Its Discontents -- The Valley -- PART IV NO ESCAPE -- 8. That Is the Law -- Whose Law? -- Hell Is Real -- The Jesus Moment -- The Rebel -- 9. Beast Monsters -- The Taste of Blood -- The Stubborn Beast Flesh -- The Horror -- 10. Big Thinks -- Suffering and Philosophy -- Science and Humanity -- Glossary -- Index.
Summary: The book presents a re-reading of H. G. Wells' novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" as a key to addressing the controversies of our own humanity. It raises the issue: without human exceptionalism, where do ethics come from?.
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Cover -- The Edge of  Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I NOT MEANT TO KNOW -- 1. The Paw -- Taking Exception -- Science and Fiction -- Science Fiction -- 2. The -ism That Wasn't -- It Does Not Please You -- Darwin in the Middle -- Two Windows -- 3. Don't Meddle -- Movies and Moreau -- Sorcery -- Life Science -- PART II THE THING IS AN ABOMINATION -- 4. The House of Pain -- No Pain, No Gain -- Moreau 1, Prendick 0 -- Pain Is Real -- 5. Into the Lab and Onto the Slab -- How -- But Why -- PART III POOR BRUTES -- 6. All the Difference -- Moreau's Man -- Prendick's Gaze -- "No!" -- The Virago -- 7. To the Beasts You May Go -- No Threshold -- Selection and Its Discontents -- The Valley -- PART IV NO ESCAPE -- 8. That Is the Law -- Whose Law? -- Hell Is Real -- The Jesus Moment -- The Rebel -- 9. Beast Monsters -- The Taste of Blood -- The Stubborn Beast Flesh -- The Horror -- 10. Big Thinks -- Suffering and Philosophy -- Science and Humanity -- Glossary -- Index.

The book presents a re-reading of H. G. Wells' novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" as a key to addressing the controversies of our own humanity. It raises the issue: without human exceptionalism, where do ethics come from?.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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