Algeny, A New Word--A New World [Hardcover]

Jeremy Rifkin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 298 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult; 1ST edition (May 9, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670108855
• ISBN-13: 978-0670108855
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,016,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work. A fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program and an adviser to several European Union heads of state, he is the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Bethesda, Maryland.

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11 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Rifkin blusters but shoots wide of the mark, June 21, 1998

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This review is from: Algeny: A New Word--A New World (Mass Market Paperback)

Genetic engineering seems likely to change the relationship between man and biological nature.

To Mr. Rifkin's credit, he wrote _Algeny_ on this subject some 15 years ago. Unfortunately, he shows little familiarity with the topics he discusses -- the book is deeply marred by Rifkin's apparent fundamental misunderstandings of evolutionary science and Darwinism.

Rifkin also wastes much space on invidious comparisons between himself and "other futurists".

Mistaken in its premises, bombastically written, filled with bad logic that fails to support its sweeping conclusions: avoid this book.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Concise anti-genetic engineering argument, July 25, 2001

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This review is from: Algeny, A New Word--A New World (Hardcover)

In arguing against social darwinism and gentic human tampering, he does a great job of decontructing darwinism itself. Some simple, but classic arguments against darwinian evolution (he examines the Miller experiment involving creation of amino acids in "primordial soup"), and some very good arguments against generic engineering.