02987nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001100153072001800164072002300182072001700205100007700222245013200299250001800431264007900449300006500528336002600593337002600619338003600645347002400681505036100705520098401066650001902050650002502069650002302094650002802117650002802145650001902173650002702192650002302219650002102242650002802263710003402291773002602325776003602351776003602387776003602423856004602459978-3-031-47739-3DE-He21320251030110900.0cr nn 008mamaa231227s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314773937 a10.1007/978-3-031-47739-32doi 4aB841.4 7aHPCF72bicssc 7aPHI0380002bisacsh 7aQDHR72thema1 aMcMahon, Peter.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aStructuralism and Form in Literature and Biologyh[electronic resource] :bCritiquing Genetic Manipulation /cby Peter McMahon.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXXI, 239 p. 22 illus., 11 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1:Structuralism, Vitalism, and Bioengineering -- 2: The Debate: Cuvier and Geoffroy -- 3: Setting the Stage for Evolutionary Theory -- 4: Adaptationism and the Author -- 5: The Relational Turn -- 6: Prague Structuralism and the Poetic Function -- 7: Immanent Evolution -- 8: Phenotype then Gene -- 9: The Interpreting Organism -- 10: An Ecological Context.  aThe 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 the endorsement of genetic manipulation and bioengineering as keys to solving agricultural and environmental problems, suggesting that alternative models have been marginalized in the promotion of this discourse. Drawing from the work of philosophers including Cassirer, Saussure, Jakobson and Foucault the book ultimately argues that methods based on agroecology, supported by molecular applications (such as marker-assisted selection, MAS), can both advance agricultural development and remain focused on the whole organism. . 0aStructuralism. 0aSciencexPhilosophy. 0aPoststructuralism. 0aLiteraturexPhilosophy. 0aContinental Philosophy.14aStructuralism.24aPhilosophy of Science.24aPoststructuralism.24aLiterary Theory.24aContinental Philosophy.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303147738608iPrinted edition:z978303147740908iPrinted edition:z978303147741640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47739-3