Kierkegaard After the Genome: Science, Existence and Belief in This World Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Jaarsma, Ada S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319862952 ISBN-13: 9783319862958 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution - Philosophy | Mind & Body |
Dewey: 100 |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.65 lbs) 227 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book brings S ren Kierkegaard's nineteenth-century existentialist project into our contemporary age, applying his understanding of "freedom" and "despair" to science and science studies, queer, decolonial and critical race theory, and disability studies. The book draws out the materialist dimensions of belief, examining the existential dynamics of phenomena like placebos, epigenetics, pedagogy, and scientific inquiry itself. Each chapter dramatizes the ways in which abstractions like "race" or "genes" and even "belief" are sites of contested practices with pressing political significance. Focusing on the existential dangers posed by neo-liberal and finance capitalist systems, the book brings to life the resources for resistance found within science studies and critical approaches to race, secularity, and disability. Throughout the book, Kierkegaard becomes an ally with ecological and developmental evolutionary theorists, as well as with science studies, critical race, and crip theorists who foreground the relational and impassioned nature of existence. |