Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of FictionHarvard University Press, 2007 - 252 Seiten With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh. |
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... genes . As I'll argue below , such utility won't be the only thing that constitutes our desires , even if considerations of narrow utility are what the genes would prefer : our genes have brought us to a place where their narrow ...
... genes , taking a willing pleasure in behavior that might be good for them — like risk taking — but bad for us individually . Again , the im- portant point here is that our genes give us incentives ( in the form of pleasure ) to behave ...
... genes may not be good for us . ( My genes would prefer me to take a 99 percent chance of immediate death to my getting a 100 percent effective vasectomy ; I don't agree with them . ) It is possible that we attain a cooperative ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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