Cosmic apprentice : dispatches from the edges of science / Dorion Sagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sagan, Dorion, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and science.

Science.

Physical Description:

293 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Contents:

Part I From "Protozoan" to Posthuman

1 The Human is More than Human: Interspecies Communities and the New Facts of Life 17

2 Bataille's Sun and the Ethical Abyss: Late-Night Thoughts on the Problem of an Affirmative Biopolitics 33

3 The Post-Man Already Always Rings Twice 41

Part II Stardust Memories

4 Stardust Memories 53

5 A Quick History of Sex 60

6 Who is I? 69

7 Of Whales and Aliens: The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth 78

Part III Gaia Sings the Blues

8 Thermosemiosis: Boltzmann's Sleight, Trim's Hat, and the Confusion concerning Entropy 87

9 Life Gave Earth the Blues 111

10 Mousetrap 120

Part IV Closing the Open Circuit

11 Priests of the Modern Abe: Scientific Revolution's and the Kook-Critic Continuum, Being a Play of Crackpots, Skeptics, Conformists, and the Curious 133

12 Metametazoa 164

13 Kermitronics 185

14 On Doyle on Drugs 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816681358

081668135X

OCLC:

816563877