Kierkegaard After the Genome: Science, Existence and Belief in This World - Paperbackby Ada S. Jaarsma (Author) This book brings S ren Kierkegaard's nineteenth century existentialist project into our contemporary age, applying his understanding of "freedom" and "despair" to science and science studies, queer, decolonial and critical race theory, and disability studies. The book draws out the materialist dimensions of belief, examining the existential dynamics of phenomena like placebos, epigenetics, pedagogy, and scientific inquiry