UNCW's Arts in Action Performance Series presents:
LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
Kenan Auditorium, UNCW (Campus Map)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Tickets: $6 UNCW students, $10 non-UNCW student, $18 UNCW employees and senior citizens, $22 public.
In celebration of this year's 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, L.A. Theatre Works, the country's leading radio theater company, performs The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial with a cast starring Edward Asner, John Heard and Jerry Hardin at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18 in UNCW's Kenan Auditorium as part of the UNCW Arts in Action Performance Series. Based on transcripts of the famous Scopes trial and written by Peter Goodchild, the play is presented in a radio-theatre format with live sound effects. The actors will host a post-performance discussion with audience members and WHQR Public Radio will record the Wilmington production for a one-time re-broadcast. For tickets and information, call Kenan Box Office at 910-962-3500 or visit www.uncw.edu/presents.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Dirk Robert Johnson to speak at UNCW
UNCW's Evolution Learning Community and Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures presents:
"Nietzsche's “Anti-Darwinism”: The Origins and Development of an Antagonism" by Dr. Dirk Robert Johnson (Hampton Sydney College)
Location: Cameron Hall 105, UNCW (Campus Map)
Date and Time: February 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Dr. Johnson's scholarship explores the intellectual interaction between Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche, a late 19th Century German philosopher. Nietzsche's complex relationship to Darwin has been much explored, and readers have placed the two thinkers in conjunction from the very beginning. Nietzsche himself alluded to Darwinian interpretations of his ideas as early as 1888. In Ecce Homo (EH), Nietzsche felt compelled to disparage “scholarly cattle,” who suggested that his Übermensch, or overman, reflected Darwinian sympathies. In recent years, numerous studies have returned to the Nietzsche-Darwin axis, which indicates that they recognize that Nietzsche's connection to Darwin must reflect a significant component of his thought. Dr. Johnson's presentation will argue for the pre-eminence of Darwin for the development and articulation of Nietzsche's philosophy. But unlike current scholarship, its main thrust will be to emphasize the antagonistic character of the relationship and to show how Nietzsche's final critique against Darwin and his followers represents the key to understanding his broader (anti-)Darwinian position.
"Nietzsche's “Anti-Darwinism”: The Origins and Development of an Antagonism" by Dr. Dirk Robert Johnson (Hampton Sydney College)
Location: Cameron Hall 105, UNCW (Campus Map)
Date and Time: February 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Dr. Johnson's scholarship explores the intellectual interaction between Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche, a late 19th Century German philosopher. Nietzsche's complex relationship to Darwin has been much explored, and readers have placed the two thinkers in conjunction from the very beginning. Nietzsche himself alluded to Darwinian interpretations of his ideas as early as 1888. In Ecce Homo (EH), Nietzsche felt compelled to disparage “scholarly cattle,” who suggested that his Übermensch, or overman, reflected Darwinian sympathies. In recent years, numerous studies have returned to the Nietzsche-Darwin axis, which indicates that they recognize that Nietzsche's connection to Darwin must reflect a significant component of his thought. Dr. Johnson's presentation will argue for the pre-eminence of Darwin for the development and articulation of Nietzsche's philosophy. But unlike current scholarship, its main thrust will be to emphasize the antagonistic character of the relationship and to show how Nietzsche's final critique against Darwin and his followers represents the key to understanding his broader (anti-)Darwinian position.
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