Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature (Sciencewriters) - Softcover

Margulis, Lynn; Sagan, Dorion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933392312 ISBN 13: 9781933392318

Verlag: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays ñ many never before anthologized. Learn how technology may be a sort of second nature, how the systemic human fungus Candida albicans can lead to cravings for carrot cake and beer, how the presence of life may be why thereís water on Earth, and many other fascinating facts.

The essay ìMetametazoaî presents perspectives on biology in a philosophical context, demonstrating how the intellectual librarian, pornographer, and political agitator Georges Bataille was influenced by Russian mineralogist Vladimir Vernadsky and how this led to his notion of the absence of meaning in the face of the sun ñ which later influenced Jacques Derrida, thereby establishing a causal chain of influence from the hard sciences to topics as abstract as deconstruction and postmodernism.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lynn Margulis, renowned biologist and proponent of the Gaia Theory, is author, editor or co-author of chapters in more than 40 books. She has published or been profiled in many journals, among them: Natural History, Science, Nature, Scientific American, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has made numerous contributions to the primary scientific literature of microbial evolution and cell biology.

Writer, editor, and sleight-of-hand artist Dorion Sagan's articles have appeared in Wired, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Natural History, The Sciences, Pabular, Cabinet, and other magazines. His books include What is Life, Origins of Sex, and Into the Cool.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1933392312
• ISBN 13: 9781933392318
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
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