Life : A Modern Invention /
The word "biology" was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his reconstruction of the genealogy of the concept of life, our understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent invention. Focusing on the histories of phi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Savage ontology
- Modernity: the threshold of autonomy
- Life: genesis of a metaphysical paradigm
- Us: on the use and abuse of life for history.