The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project

Kevles, Daniel; Hood, Leroy

ISBN 10: 0674136454 / ISBN 13: 9780674136458

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1992

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First edition 1992, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Published by Harvard University Press. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square, tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent pages. Not a reminder. DJ new, bright, no edgewear, no tears, no chips, price not clipped. 8vo, X + 397 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 007984

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Titre : The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social ...

Éditeur : Harvard University Press

Date d'édition : 1992

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : New

Etat de la jaquette : New

Edition : 1st Edition

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Now and then" writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself" In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life-and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.