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Sebastian Williams

Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900

Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900

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Modernist Parasites explores the political, scientific, and literary imagination of biological and social parasites, challenging ethical models that prioritize the individual over interdependent communities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 22 August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc


Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 explores the concept of biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. In the late nineteenth century, with the emergence of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology, Sebastian Williams suggests that the "parasite" became humanity's ultimate other, a dangerous antagonist. However, numerous authors, including Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell, challenge this notion. Ultimately, parasites rely on others for their survival, highlighting the limitations of ethical models that prioritize the discrete individual over interdependent communities.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666921298

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