Organism and Environment (eBook)

Inheritance and Subjectivity in the Life Sciences

Russell Winslow (Autor)

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2017
246 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5279-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, Russell Winslow analyzes contemporary discourses in microbiology and evolutionary inheritance theory to foreground the metaphysical prejudices that unreflectively subtend these discourses, highlight and illuminate an emergent prejudice of an ecological ontology in microbiology, and determine what interpretive possibilities it affords.

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Organism and Environment performs an examination into 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, the present book argues that these discourses are adding their voices to a growing chorus which 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.

Autor

Russell Winslow teaches philosophy at St. John's College, Santa Fe.

Inhalt

Introduction: on Inheritance and SubjectivityPart I: Theoretical InheritancesChapter 1: Toward a Hermeneutic Approach to Biological DiscoursesChapter 2: The Structure of Sight: Foucault’s Early Analysis of the Life SciencesPart II: Ecological InheritancesChapter 3: Subjectivity in the Extended Inheritance Theory of EvolutionChapter 4: Genetic Transformation into StructureChapter 5: The Space of Life: Reflections on the Ontological Consequences of the Secondary Inheritance Theory of EvolutionPart III: Microbial InheritancesChapter 6: Microbes Colonizing HumanismChapter 7: Horizontal Gene Transfer: On the Ontological Consequences of the Horizontal Inheritance of DNAChapter 8: Being One and Many: Microbial Symbiosis and InheritanceChapter 9: A Concrescence of Inheritances Vs. the Metaphysically-Present IndividualBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2017
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
• Schlagworte: Aristotle • Biopolitics • Canguilhem • Carl Woese • Continental Philosophy • Embryology • Foucault • Gadamer • Genetics • Heidegger • historical a priori • Husserl • individuals and community • Inheritance • Margulis • Metaphysics • Microbiology • microorganisms • Ontology • Philosophy of Biology • philosophy of science • Philosophy of Technology • posthumanism • progenote • Rhizome • Simondon • Subjectivity • Taxonomy • Theory of Evolution
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5279-X / 149855279X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5279-0 / 9781498552790