{"product_id":"who-is-the-scientist-subject-affective-history-of-the-gene-9780367734435","title":"Who is the Scientist-Subject?: Affective History of the Gene","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Esha Shah\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman \u0026amp; Hall\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant conception of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian ideal self - that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self-determined, self-regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully driven by social and scientific ethos - in favour of a narrative that shows how the microcosm of reductionism is sustained, adopted, questioned, or challenged in the creative struggles of the scientist-subject. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author covers a century-long history of the concept of the gene as a series of \"pioneering moments\" through an engagement with life-writings of eminent scientists to show how their ways of being and belonging relate with the making of the science. The scientist-self is theorized as fundamentally a feeling, experiencing, and suffering subject split between the conscious and unconscious and constitutive of personality aspects that are emotional\/psychological, \"situated\" (cultural and ideological), metaphysical, intersubjective, and existential at the same time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn engaging interdisciplinary interpretation of the dominance of reductionism in genetic science, this book will be of major interest to scholars and researchers of science, history, and philosophy alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45240798347415,"sku":"9780367734435","price":3735.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367734435.webp?v=1769226659","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/who-is-the-scientist-subject-affective-history-of-the-gene-9780367734435","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}