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The Age of Immunology : Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World by A David Napier; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Age of Immunology : Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World about?
In this fascinating and inventive work, A. David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology—that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self—has become a defining concept of the modern age. Tracing this immunological understanding of self and other through an incredibly diverse array of venues, from medical research to legal and military strategies and the electronic revolution, Napier shows how this defensive way of looking at the world not only destroys diversity but also eliminates the possibility of truly engaging difference, thereby impoverishing our culture and foreclosing tremendous opportunities for personal growth. To illustrate these destructive consequences, Napier likens the current craze for embracing diversity and the use of politically correct speech to a cultural potluck to which we each bring different dishes, but at which no one can eat unless they abide by the same rules. Similarly, loaning money to developing nations serves as a tool both to make the peoples in those nations more like us and to maintain them in the nonthreatening status of distant dependents. To break free of the resulting downward spiral of homogenization and sel
Who reads The Age of Immunology : Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- A David Napier; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781283058452
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Philosophy