Instead of the usual physicalism, this is a biologistic worldview. |
That very lack of engagement enables a popularising of biologistic discourse that deserves more informed criticism. |
The term meme, of course, derives from Richard Dawkins's biologistic account of how genetic and nongenetic data spread, like viruses, through their corporeal transmitters. |
In Helga, she creates a self-referential Melanctha of the twenties who at moments openly mocks the very biologistic literary tradition that has produced her. |
Central to the new natural law approach is an avoidance of metaphysics and a disavowal of biologistic teleology. |
In the nineteenth-century novel, when eugenic and biologistic ideologies are in place, this curative function operates within a specifically medicalized, somatized framework. |