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The Meaning of Life
Critical Inquiry 37 (4):697-723 (2011)
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The starting point of this essay is that there is a contradiction at the heart of our current and hyperbolic understandings of life. To be more precise, on the one hand there is the historical novelty of biology as a modern science and set of technologies. On the other hand, life is simultaneously understood according to biological protocols that seem void of historyAuthor's Profile
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