Action and Reaction
Subtitle: The Life and Adventures of a Couple
Contributors: Sophie Hawkes (Translator)
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: January 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781890951207
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Metaphysics & ontology; Science/Mathematics; Metaphysics; Philosophy Of Action; Philosophy Of Psychology; Psychology; Philosophy; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Reaction (Philosophy); History & Surveys - Modern; Linguistics; Semantics; History / General; General; Act (Philosophy)
Description: "Action and Reaction is a semantic and philological history, a literary history, a history of medicine, and a history of the biological sciences. Concentrating especially on the moment when scientific language and ordinary language diverge, the author offers a genealogy of the human and natural sciences through their usage of the metaphors action and reaction. The author analyses the scientific, literary, and political effects of the terms action and reaction in describing and explaining the material universe, the living body, the events of history, and psychological behavior."--BOOK JACKET.