Ellen Clarke: The Units of Life, Gebunden

Ellen Clarke

The Units of Life

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press, 02/2026
Binding:: Gebunden
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780192857194
Item number:: 12313385
Volume:: 288 Pages
Weight:: 630 g
Format:: 242 x 164 mm
Thickness:: 20 mm
Release date:: 11.2.2026
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In The Units of Life Ellen Clarke argues that our way of conceptualizing living things--of understanding the living world as carved up into numerous separate chunks--is best understood as idealization. This idealization serves valuable pragmatic and theoretical purposes, but stands as a distortion nonetheless of the more messy and variable reality.