The Sparks of Randomness, Volume 1: Spermatic Knowledge

by Henri Atlan

Book Overview

The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan's magnum opus, develops his whole philosophy with a highly impressive display of knowledge, wisdom, depth, rigor, and intellectual and moral vigor. Atlan founds an ethics adapted to the new power over life that modern scientific knowledge has given us. He holds that the results of science cannot ground any ethical or political truth whatsoever, while human creative activity and the conquest of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804760276
• ISBN13: 9780804760270
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"