Structuralism and Form in Literature and Biology: Critiquing Genetic Manipulation

by Peter McMahon

The book considers biology in parallel with philosophical structuralism in order to argue that notions of form in the organism are analogous to similar ideas in structuralist philosophy and literary theory. This analogy is then used to shed light on debates among biological scientists from the turn of the 19th century to the present day, including Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Dawkins, Crick, Goodwin, Rosen and West-Eberhard. The book critiques...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031477383
• ISBN13: 9783031477386
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"