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  title info:
    title: Organism and environment
    sub title: inheritance and subjectivity in the life sciences
  name:
    name part: Winslow, Russell (Russell E.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Organism and Environment examins the way the contemporary life sciences are heralding a revolution of the most basic philosophical concepts of the Western world. Analyzing recent research in microbiology and evolution theory, Russell Winslow argues that these discourses are adding their voices to a growing chorus thath is announcing a disruption, if not an end, to the understanding of the order of the world articulated in humanism. What does it mean to be a living substance? Are there such things as living individuals? How are living beings free? The discourses of microbiology, the medical sciences and evolution theory are revealing a living organism that escapes the limited frame that Enlightenment humanism has traditionally used to answer these (and other) ontological questions. Appealing to the theoretical lenses provided by Michel Foucault, Hans Georg Gadamer and Gilles Deleuze, Organism and Environment offers an interpretation of the way the contemporary life sciences are giving articulation to a posthuman ontological order.
  table of contents: Introduction: on inheritance and subjectivity -- Toward a hermeneutic approach to biological discourses -- The structure of sight: Foucault's early analysis of the life sciences -- Subjectivity in the extended inheritance theory of evolution -- Genetic transformation into structure -- The space of life: reflections on the ontological consequences of the secondary inheritance theory of evolution -- Microbes colonizing humanism -- Horizontal gene transfer: on the ontological consequences of the horizontal inheritance of DNA -- Being one and many: microbial symbiosis and inheritance -- A concrescence of inheritances vs. the metaphysically-present individual.
  note: Russell Winslow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Genetics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: QH360.5 .W56 2017
  classification: 576.801
  identifier: 1498552781
  identifier: 9781498552783
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170703
    record change date: 20180214135300.0
    record identifier: in00003913447