By
Yair Neuman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Description
Modern biology portrays living systems, from the amoeba to the human organism, as mechanical toys shaped by the brute logic of natural
selection. In "Reviving the Living": Meaning Making in Living Systems, Dr. Yair Neuman challenges the dogmas that frame our understanding
of living systems and presents an alternative that avoids the pitfalls of non-scientific perspectives such as Vitalism and Creationism.
In this thought provoking and iconoclastic manuscript, Dr. Neuman follows the footsteps of Gregory Bateson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Michael
Polanyi and others, to suggest that living systems are "meaning making" systems. Dr. Neuman delves into the unique processes of meaning
making that characterize organisms as a unique category of nature, and presents new and fascinating insights into a variety of enigmatic
biological phenomena from immune memory to hidden life (cryptobiosis).
Written by a polymath, Reviving the Living is a tour-de-force
in interdisciplinary research which is of high interest to any reflective individual who is willing to examine the realm of the living
from a novel and fascinating perspective.
Included in series
Studies in Multidisciplinarity
Audience:
Biologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, psychologists, semioticians, general audience
