This collection of essays highlights, in a new, critical fashion, some of the classic questions in life science. These include ""what is life?""; ""what is death?""; ""what is consciousness?""; ""why is life cellular?""; and ""why are enzymes macromolecules?"". It also explores …
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This collection of essays highlights, in a new, critical fashion, some of the classic questions in life science. These include ""what is life?""; ""what is death?""; ""what is consciousness?""; ""why is life cellular?""; and ""why are enzymes macromolecules?"". It also explores …
"What is life? In The Biology of Wonder, scientist Andreas Weber resolves this fundamental enigma, arguing that humans, like all living beings, are creative, evolutionary forces who cannot exist apart from nature. This landmark work demonstrates that our connection to Earth's co…
"Learn about jumping insects with real gears, and the ingenious technology behind a power-punching shrimp. Enter the strange world of carnivorous plants. And check out a microscopic protein machine in a bird's eye that may work as a GPS device by harnessing quantum entanglement.…
La 4e de couv. indique : "In Biodeconstruction, Francesco Vitale demonstrates the key role that the question of life plays in Jacques Derrida's work. In the seminar La vie la mort (1975), Derrida engages closely with the life sciences, especially biology and evolution theory. Co…
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Toward Biodeconstruction -- The Biological Genesis of Arche-writing -- The Arche-Writing of the History of Life -- II. Between Life and Death: Différance -- The Deconstruction of Life Between Hegel and Jacob -- Hegel: T…
Analyzes Derrida's 1975 seminar "La vie la mort" as a deconstruction of biology with relevance to his work more broadly.
Towards biodeconstruction -- Between life and death: différance -- The absolute programme -- The text and the living -- Between life and death: the bond -- Beyond life death: autoimmunity -- Living on: the arche-performative. In Biodeconstruction, Francesco Vitale demonstrates …