Understanding Scientific Prose

Jack Selzer

ISBN 10: 0299139042 / ISBN 13: 9780299139049

Published by University Of Wisconsin Press Jul 1993, 1993

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Scientific Prose
• Publisher: University Of Wisconsin Press Jul 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299139042
• ISBN 13: 9780299139049
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 170H x 26D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 599 grams

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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.

About the Author

Jack Selzer is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.