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Stalinist Genetics - The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko (Hardcover)
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Stalinist Genetics - The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko (Hardcover)
Series: Baywood's Technical Communications
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Stalinist Genetics focuses on the rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko, the
founder of an agrobiological doctrine (Lysenkoism) in the Stalinist
Soviet Union. Using not only scientific but also political and
ideological arguments, Lysenko achieved an official ban on Soviet
Mendelian genetics. Though the ban was brief and Lysenkoism, as a
leading biological doctrine, was eventually deposed in favor of
Mendelism, Lysenkoism remains a paradigmatic example of pernicious
political interference in science. In this study, the critical
orientation for reading Lysenko's major speeches is constitutional
rhetoric. It combines Kenneth Burke's dialectic of constitutions
and rhetoric of the subject. Painting a nuanced picture of
intellectual, economic, ideological, and political life in the
Soviet Union of the 1930s and 1940s, the book demonstrates how the
rhetorics of Lysenkoism and Mendelism interacted with Stalinist
culture in the fight for dominating Soviet science. The reader will
learn how Lysenko's constitutional rhetoric created a space where
scientific terms transformed into political and ideological ones,
and vice versa. The book also shows how, in a dialectical flip, the
Lysenkoist rhetoric eventually turned from tool to master. Contrary
to Lysenko's intentions, his language gave his opponents, Soviet
Mendelians, grounds on which to defend their science and criticize
Lysenkoism. Stanchevici forcefully reasserts the blurriness of the
boundaries between science and politics, and argues that scientific
language reveals more plasticity and adaptability to the political
situation than has hitherto been assumed. Intended Audience:
Scholars in rhetoric, history, and philosophy of science; graduate
or upper-division undergraduate course in the rhetoric of science
or technical communication.
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