Dazzle Gradually

Reflections on the Nature of Nature

Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2008
Chelsea Green Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-1-933392-31-8 (ISBN)

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At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays ñ many never before anthologized. Learn how technology may be a sort of second nature, how the systemic human fungus Candida albicans can lead to cravings for carrot cake and beer, how the presence of life may be why thereís water on Earth, and many other fascinating facts.

The essay ìMetametazoaî presents perspectives on biology in a philosophical context, demonstrating how the intellectual librarian, pornographer, and political agitator Georges Bataille was influenced by Russian mineralogist Vladimir Vernadsky and how this led to his notion of the absence of meaning in the face of the sun ñ which later influenced Jacques Derrida, thereby establishing a causal chain of influence from the hard sciences to topics as abstract as deconstruction and postmodernism.

Lynn Margulis, renowned biologist and proponent of the Gaia Theory, is author, editor or co-author of chapters in more than 40 books. She has published or been profiled in many journals, among them: Natural History, Science, Nature, Scientific American, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has made numerous contributions to the primary scientific literature of microbial evolution and cell biology. Writer, editor, and sleight-of-hand artist Dorion Sagan's articles have appeared in Wired, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Natural History, The Sciences, Pabular, Cabinet, and other magazines. His books include What is Life, Origins of Sex, and Into the Cool.

Foreword by Roald Hoffmann

Acknowledgements

Part I ñ Mnemosyne: Red Shoe Conundrum (Lynn Margulis); Truth of My Father (Dorion Sagan); The Uncut Self (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis).

Part II ñ Chimera: Power to the Protoctists (Lynn Margulis); Prejudice and Bacterial Consciousness (Lynn Margulis); All for One (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan); Speculation on Speculation (Lynn Margulis); Spirochetes Awake ñ Syphilis and Nietzscheís Mad Genius (Lynn Margulis); From Kefir to Death (Lynn Margulis); Welcome to the Machine (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); The Transhumans Are Coming (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis);j Alien Enlightenment ñ Michael Persinger and the Neuropsychology of God (Dorion Sagan).

Part III ñ Eros: The Riddle of Sex (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); An Evolutionary Striptease (Dorion Sagan); Vive la Difference (Dorion Sagan); Candidiasis and the Origin of Clowns (Dorion Sagan with Lynn Margulis).

Part IV ñ Gaea: The Atmosphere, Gaiaís Circulatory System (Lynn Margulis and James E. Lovelock); Gaia and Philosophy (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); The Global Sulfur Cycle and Emiliania huxleyi (Dorion Sagan); Descartes, Dualism, and Beyond (Dorion Saga, Lynn Margulis, and Ricardo Guerrero); What Narcissus Saw ñ The Oceanic ìEyeî (Dorion Sagan); The Pleasures of Change (Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider).

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Verlagsort	White River Junction
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-933392-31-2 / 1933392312
ISBN-13	978-1-933392-31-8 / 9781933392318
Zustand	Neuware