| Description |
1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Philosophy |
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Studies in Philosophy
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Generating the Good; 1 Legal Fictions of Genealogy; 2 Mothers Have Animals, Fathers Have Heirs; 3 Questions of Kind: The Human Species; 4 Questions of Kind: (family) Race (species); 5 Genealogical Purifi cation; 6 Medical Police and Hybridization; 7 Literary Insight: Brotherhood, the End of Tolerance; Postscript: Heredity's Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In this volume, Eigen places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories in order to answer the question, what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute? |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203893807 |
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0203893808 |
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