On Beyond Living : Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences

Date: 01 Aug 1997
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback::188 pages
ISBN10: 0804727651
ISBN13: 9780804727655
Publication City/Country: Palo Alto, United States
File size: 54 Mb
Dimension: 152x 229x 11.94mm::286g

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[PDF] On Beyond Living : Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences ebook. Compre o livro On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences na confira as ofertas para livros em inglês e importados On Beyond Living is a genealogy of these initiatives, a map of how we have come to equate human beings with "information." Melding contemporary theory with scientific discourse, it is certain to provoke discussion (and controversy) in the fields of cultural studies, theory, and science with its penetrating inquiries into the relations between On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences Richard Doyle Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA 1997 0 8047 2765 1 (pb); 0 8047 2764 3 (hb) What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled crucial rhetorical "softwares. On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences begins where many of these analyses leave off, Richard Doyle is as interested in consequences as he is in antecedents. He focuses his attention quite specifically on the metaphors used molecular biologists in the 1950s to describe the origins of life, and examines the

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