Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field

by Manuel DeLanda

Book Overview

Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and subfields of chemistry.

The strategy followed uses a series of chemical textbooks, separated from each other by fifty year periods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474286402
• ISBN13: 9781474286404
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"