Readers of the Book of Life - Anton Markos - Books - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780195149487 - November 21, 2002
In case cover and title do not match, the title is correct

Anton Markos
Readers of the Book of Life

Get an email once the item is available
Do you have a profile? Log in
Get notified about new Anton Markos releases

Our customers say:

14-day return policy in accordance with European consumer protection law
Top ranking on Trustpilot
Add to your iMusic wish list

Not rated yet

The "egg-and-hen" engima - how the genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text, and tuning the performance to the environment. A. Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume living beings as endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her/his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes up living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA. This interpretation is based on the experience of the cell (cell lineage, species), and negotiated with present environmental cues.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 21, 2002
ISBN13 9780195149487
Publishers Oxford University Press Inc
Pages 256
Dimensions 150 × 230 × 25 mm   ·   517 g
Language English  

More by Anton Markos

Show all

More from the same publisher

See all of Anton Markos ( e.g. Hardcover Book and Paperback Book )