PostHumanities

Life: A Modern Invention
Davide Tarizzo, translated by Mark William Epstein


Paperback | Mar 2018 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816691623 | 256pp | 216x139mm | RFB | AUD$40.99, NZD$47.99

The word "biology" was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates, our understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent invention. Circumventing tired debates about the validity of science and the truth of Darwinian evolution, Tarizzo instead envisions a profound paradigm shift in philosophical and scientific concepts of biological life.