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The Genesis of Living Forms (English, French, Hardcover)
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The Genesis of Living Forms (English, French, Hardcover)
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The philosophy of Raymond Ruyer was an important if subterranean
influence on twentieth-century French thought, and explicitly
engaged with by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges
Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. The Genesis of
Living Forms is Ruyer's most focussed and forceful analysis of a
central but apparently paradoxical biological phenomenon that also
presents serious problems for philosophy: embryogenesis. When a cat
develops from the early stages of fertilization to an adult, what
is it that makes it the same cat? How is it that a living being can
at once be the same and constantly changing? Ruyer's answer to
these questions unfolds through a detailed set of encounters with
major scientific fields, from particle physics to social
psychology, arguing that the paradox can only be dissolved by
seeing the role that form plays in the ongoing development of
living beings. In Ruyer's view, embryogenesis is a central problem
not just in the life sciences; every thing must possess a relation
to a form that is characteristic of it, from carbon atoms to
embryos, and to embryologists themselves.
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