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Chance and Necessity

Jacques Monod

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 199 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 611 Users | 54 Reviews

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Original Title:	Le hasard et la nécessité
ISBN:	0394718259 (ISBN13: 9780394718255)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Translation (1972)

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This radical book by Nobel laureate Monod is an important intellectual event. Chance and Necessity is a philosophical statement whose intention is to sweep away as both false and dangerous the animist conception of man that has dominated virtually all Western worldviews from primitive cultures to those of dialectical materialists. He bases his argument on the evidence of modern biology, which indisputably shows, that man is the product of chance genetic mutation. With the unrelenting logic of the scientist, he draws upon what we now know (and can theorize) of genetic structure to suggest an new way of looking at ourselves. He argues that objective scientific knowledge, the only reliable knowledge, denies the concepts of destiny or evolutionary purpose that underlie traditional philosophies. He contends that the persistence of those concepts is responsible for the intensifying schizophrenia of a world that accepts, and lives by, the fruits of science while refusing to face its moral implications. Dismissing as "animist" not only Plato, Hegel, Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin but Spencer and Marx as well, he calls for a new ethic that will recognize the distinction between objective knowledge and the realm of values--an ethic of knowledge that can, perhaps, save us from our deepening spiritual malaise, from the new age of darkness he sees coming.
Preface
Of strange objects
Vitalisms and animisms
Maxwell's demons
Microscopic cybernetics
Molecular ontogenesis
Invariance and perturbations
Evolution
The frontiers
The kingdom and the darkness
Appendixes

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Title	:	Chance and Necessity
Author	:	Jacques Monod
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 199 pages
Published	:	September 12th 1972 by Vintage (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Science. Philosophy. Biology. Nonfiction. Evolution

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A powerful account of a universe without teleology. Essential reading for anybody interested in exploring a novel philosophy for our civilisation, in light of the incredible insights garnered by science.

Yet another book that I read decades ago and still value despite being unable to offer a very detailed account at this point. See other reviews, especially this one: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Monod, che non è un divulgatore né vuole esserlo, ha scritto questo fondamentale saggio scientifico-filosofico che risulta piuttosto ostico nelle parti di chimica-biochimica per chi non possiede un bagaglio di cognizioni specifiche. Del resto queste parti sono ormai datate (il libro è del 1970) ma ciò non importa molto, in quanto esse servono soprattutto come base per costruire una visione filosofica della vita e del mondo, della conoscenza e delle idee. Fra i tanti concetti racchiusi in questo

Jacques Monod kitabına yapay ve doğal arasındaki ayrımı sorgulamakla başlar. Burdan canlı cansız ayrımına geçer. Amacı, evrende önceden tasarlanmış bir düzen olup olmadığını sorgulamaktır. Monodya göre canlıları cansızlardan ayıran temel özelliklerin başında teleonomi gelir. Genetik olayların anlamlı oluşu ve amaca uygunluğu, bir organizmada bulunan bir yapı ya da işlevin evrimsel bir avantaj olması gereğine bağlılığı düşüncesi olarak özetleyebileceğimiz teleonomi, canlıların sanki bir amaca

A classic meditation on evolution and the idea of randomness in natural selection. Thoughtful and beautifully-written. Very much the slim volume that made me fascinated with evolutionary biology.

Hasn't aged well.

As far as I can make out from a little background reading, the origin of this book came in 1948. Jacques Monod, a highly distinguished molecular biologist who would later win the 1965 Nobel Prize, was asked by his friend Albert Camus to write a critique of Lysenkoism; at the time this was officially declared by Stalin as holy writ to which all right-thinking Marxists had to subscribe on pain of excommunication. Monod, appalled at Lysenko's mendacious pseudo-scientific nonsense, tore it to