From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy

Marco Solinas holds the National Scientific Qualification as Professor of Philosophy; he has studied and researched in Florence, Nottingham, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Paris. He has written articles in important international reviews, and is author of Psiche: Platone e Freud (2008), also published in German with the title Via Platonica zum Unbewussten (2012).

PART I: THE ARISTOTELIAN TELEOLOGICAL TRADITION The Original Framework 1. Consistency 2. To the Margins 3. Fixed in Time 4. Tools 5. Adaptations 6. Means of Defence 7. Unseeing Eyes For and Against Aristotle 1. Regrafting and Divergences 2. Reception and Institutionalization 3. Rebirth 4. Mathematization 5. Teleological Experimentalism 6. Chicks 7. Procreations Preordained 8. The Last Stronghold Indirect Supremacy 1. Persistence 2. Long Shadows 3. Subtext 4. Œconomia naturæ 5. Short Shadows PART II: THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION Crisis and Hegemony 1. Under Pressure 2. Elephant Bones 3. The Challenger 4. The Last Great Heir Darwin's Breakthrough 1. Haunted 2. A Hundred Thousand Wedges 3. Barren Virgins 4. The Stamp of Inutility 5. Metamorphoses 6. Variations 7. Revolutions 8. Genealogies Dry Branches 1. Obsolescence 2. A Double-edged Sword 3. Techne 4. On the Cusp 5. Archaisms 6. Corals 7. Circularity 8. Revenge