03375nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-47739-3 DE-He213 20251030110900.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231227s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031477393 978-3-031-47739-3 10.1007/978-3-031-47739-3 doi B841.4 HPCF7 bicssc PHI038000 bisacsh QDHR7 thema McMahon, Peter. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 68558 Structuralism and Form in Literature and Biology [electronic resource] : Critiquing Genetic Manipulation / by Peter McMahon. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXI, 239 p. 22 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1: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. 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 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. . Structuralism. 68559 Science Philosophy. 63307 Poststructuralism. 62295 Literature Philosophy. 66322 Continental Philosophy. 66476 Structuralism. 68559 Philosophy of Science. 68560 Poststructuralism. 62295 Literary Theory. 61787 Continental Philosophy. 66476 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031477386 Printed edition: 9783031477409 Printed edition: 9783031477416 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47739-3 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 56904 56904