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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Tarizzo, Davide (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Epstein, Mark (Mark William) (Traducteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Italiano
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Savage ontology
  • Modernity: the threshold of autonomy
  • Life: genesis of a metaphysical paradigm
  • Us: on the use and abuse of life for history.