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Author: Samantha Frost
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780822361091
ISBN 10: 0822361094
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 28 June 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a remarkable book, of interest and highly recommended to any researcher-across scientific, social science, and humanities disciplines-exploring the intersections of life sciences and politics, 'filling out the conceptual hunches' of posthumanism, or in any way intrigued by how matter matters at all levels of our creaturely experience. -- Emily Beausoleil * Theory & Event *
Achieving consilience, the unity of knowledge necessary to understand human nature, has long captivated scholars and scientists from Descartes to Darwin. Samantha Frost has fashioned an exciting new conceptualization of human nature by creatively synthesizing a deep dive into contemporary biology with mastery of humanist theory. By explicating and analyzing biological discoveries revealing that the boundaries between DNA, self, and the environment are much more fluid than ever imagined, Biocultural Creatures builds an important bridge between the humanities and the sciences. --Gene E. Robinson, Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Samantha Frost offers a clear, accessible, and theoretically invigorated exploration of the life sciences, demonstrating the need for a new theory of the human. -- Susan Merrill Squier, author of Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine Achieving consilience, the unity of knowledge necessary to understand human nature, has long captivated scholars and scientists from Descartes to Darwin. Samantha Frost has fashioned an exciting new conceptualization of human nature by creatively synthesizing a deep dive into contemporary biology with mastery of humanist theory. By explicating and analyzing biological discoveries revealing that the boundaries between DNA, self, and the environment are much more fluid than ever imagined, Biocultural Creatures builds an important bridge between the humanities and the sciences. -- Gene E. Robinson, Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author Information
Samantha Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the coeditor of New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics.
