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"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems with the aid of (bio-)technological innovation. Conceptual-level and meta-level analyses are needed: we should sort out conceptual ambiguities to agree on what we talk about, and we need to spell out agendas to see the disagreements clearly. The book is based on the interdisciplinary summer school "Analyzing the societal dimensions of synthetic biology", which took place in Berlin in September 2014. The contributions address controversial discussions around the philosophical examination, public perception, moral evaluation and governance of synthetic biology.

Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Synthetic biology. --- Bioengineering --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Biological engineering --- Life science engineering --- Biology --- Engineering --- Synthetic biology --- Philosophy (General). --- Biotechnology. --- Philosophy, general. --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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In dem Band werden unterschiedliche Aspekte der Transformation der antiken Wissensformen jeweils am Beispiel verschiedener Wissensfelder behandelt. Die leitende Frage lautet, worin sich jeweils die Wissenschaftlichkeit des Wissens manifestiert, worin also die je eigenen Merkmale und Kriterien der Wissenschaftlichkeit unterschiedlicher Wissenschaften bestehen. Das Konzept der Transformation liefert dabei den Ausgangspunkt: Der Bezug zur Antike bildet nicht eine einseitige Rezeption eines über die Zeiten gleich bleibenden Gegenstandes, sondern stellt vielmehr eine zweistellige Relation der voneinander abhängigen Fremd- und Selbstkonstruktion dar. Wissenschaftsgeschichtlich bildeten sich einerseits die Maßstäbe der Wissenschaften vielfach über die Rezeption der antiken Wissensformen, andererseits führte umgekehrt die jeweilige Konstituierung einer Wissenschaft zu einer Transformation dieser Maßstäbe und damit auch zu einer unterschiedlichen Einschätzung der Wissenschaftlichkeit antiker Vorläufer. Weil in dem Prozess der Transformation Bedingungen erzeugt werden, die das Rezipierte selbst verändern, ergibt sich damit insgesamt ein komplexes transformationstheoretisches Verhältnis der doppelpoligen Beziehung.

Learning and scholarship --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Research --- Intellectual life --- Science, Ancient --- Social change --- History --- Antiquity/Reception. --- Epistemology. --- History of Science. --- History of Transformation. --- Philosophy.

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Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as 'transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.

Humanism --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Classical tradition. --- Reception studies. --- Renaissance humanism.