Does the science, like the carbon atom, give us hope, or does it act as a God- substitute, where God has failed us, or some interesting combination of effects? How do theories of Nature complicate our theories of human nature? How does a focus on the concrete help put the lie to systems of ideas, like Nazi ideology?Explain
How can science work both as a positive (even dangerously utopian) discourse positing human perfectibility and the order of Nature, and as a dangerously impersonal, dehumanizing discourse that allowed for millions of human “specimens” to be experimented on, and then exterminated during the Holocaust? What does it mean for Levi to turn to science to […]