Kierkegaard After The Genome: Science, Existence And Belief In This World
by Ada S. Jaarsma /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book brings Søren 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.
This book brings Søren 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.
