ABSTRACT

This chapter talks about the implications of this historical development for the concepts of order which some explain with natural science and others with constructivism. It focuses on the cultural-symbolic level, but the discussion can be widened into the realm of the socio-individual and the material. In Darwin's theory of evolution ideas of chaos and disorder no longer obstruct our views on the world, but rather are the effigies of nature. In his essay 'In Praise of Polytheism', Odo Marquard rightly points out the destructive potency towards polymythic narratives that monotheism and the myth of progress show in its parallel exoticization of the cultural Other. Darwinist thought when considering those authorities and experts who organize the representation or image of Darwin. These processed coherences become normative views, survival guides for reading Darwin, doctrines for social action. Today, and after Darwin, we live with the idea that the worldly order is a product of evolution, its driving force DNA.