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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Sparks of Randomness, Volume 1: Spermatic Knowledge (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

ISBN 10

0804773572

ISBN 13

9780804773577

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

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This first volume of biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan's masterpiece takes up the question of the techniques and sciences linked to the fabrication of living beings while following unexpected paths of religion and philosophy through the Talmud, Spinoza, the Kabbalah, Leibnitz, and more.

About the Author

Henri Atlan is Professor Emeritus of Biophysics and Director of the Human Biology Research Center at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem and Director of Research at the �cole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. For decades, he also served on the French National Advisory Committee on Ethics in the Health and Life Sciences. Atlan's honorific titles include the French Legion of Honor, the French Order of Arts and Letters, and the French National Order of Merit.

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