The Human Sciences in a Biological Age

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Human Sciences in a Biological Age

AU - Rose, Nikolas

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PY - 2013/1

Y1 - 2013/1

N2 - We live, according to some, in the century of biology where we now understand ourselves in radically new ways, as the insights of genomics and neuroscience have opened up the workings of our bodies and our minds to new kinds of knowledge and intervention. Is a new figure of the human, and of the social, taking shape in the twenty first century? With what consequences for the politics of life today? And with what implications, if any, for the social, cultural and human sciences? These are the issues that are discussed in this paper, which argues that a new relation is requred with the life sciences, beyond commentary and critique, if the social and human sciences are to revitalize tehmselves for the twenty-first century.

AB - We live, according to some, in the century of biology where we now understand ourselves in radically new ways, as the insights of genomics and neuroscience have opened up the workings of our bodies and our minds to new kinds of knowledge and intervention. Is a new figure of the human, and of the social, taking shape in the twenty first century? With what consequences for the politics of life today? And with what implications, if any, for the social, cultural and human sciences? These are the issues that are discussed in this paper, which argues that a new relation is requred with the life sciences, beyond commentary and critique, if the social and human sciences are to revitalize tehmselves for the twenty-first century.

KW - Human, Biology, Body, Brain, Social, Ethic

U2 - 10.1177/0263276412456569

DO - 10.1177/0263276412456569

M3 - Article

SN - 1460-3616

VL - 30

SP - 3

EP - 34

JO - Theory, Culture & Society

JF - Theory, Culture & Society

IS - 1

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ER -