ABSTRACT
1. Chance and necessity 2. Biological randomness 3. The teleonomic project 4. Evolution and literature 5. Fitness and ideology 6. The postulate of objectivity 7. Monod’s version of transcendence 8. Ordinary inter-personal attitudes 9. Levels of meaning 10. Texts for analysis 11. The initial reading 12. Reading and objectivity 13. Meaning and reactivity 14. Language and responsibility 15. Responsible silences 16. The grant of freedom 17. Freedom and objectivity
