Understanding Scientific Prose (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences) - Softcover

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9780299139049: Understanding Scientific Prose (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)
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ISBN 10: 0299139042 ISBN 13: 9780299139049
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

Synopsis

Examining science as a rhetorical enterprise, this book seizes upon one scientific essay—"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme"—and probes it from many angles.  Written by prominent evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin and first published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in 1979, the "Spandrels" article is both serious science and vivid prose. Applying methods inspired by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand de Saussure, and others, the contributors employ a range of interpretive strategies. Stephen Jay Gould adds his own comments, and the full text of the essay "Spandrels" is reproduced as an appendix. Applying methods inspired by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand de Saussure, and others, the contributors employ a range of interpretive strategies. Stephen Jay Gould adds his own comments, and the full text of the essay "Spandrels" is reproduced as an appendix.

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About the Author

Jack Selzer is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, published by University of Wisconsin Press, and is currently working on a sequel.


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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0299139042
ISBN 13 
9780299139049
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
408
Editor
Selzer Jack
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