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kobvindex_HPB1162470611
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1 online resource
ISBN:
9781134392520
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1134392524
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1134392532
,
9781134392537
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1280047070
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9781280047077
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9786610047079
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6610047073
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0203480929
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9780203480922
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9780415309066
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0415309069
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9780415340779
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0415340772
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9781134392483
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1134392486
Content:
Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose, she claims that myths are neither lies nor mere stories but a network of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.
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How myths work -- Our place in the world -- Progress, science and modernity -- Thought has many forms -- The aims of reduction -- Dualistic dilemmas -- Motives, materialism and megalomania -- What is action -- Tidying the inner scene : why memes? -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Getting rid of the ego -- Cultural evolution? -- Selecting the selectors -- Is reason sex-linked? -- The journey from freedom to desolation -- Biotechnology and the yuk factor -- The new alchemy -- The supernatural engineer -- Heaven and earth, an awkward history -- Science looks both ways -- Are you an animal? -- Problems about parsimony -- Denying animal consciousness -- Beasts versus the biosphere? -- Some practical dilemmas -- Problems of living with otherness -- Changing ideas of wildness.
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English.
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Print version: Myths we live by. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 ISBN 0415309069
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
DOI:
10.4324/9780203480922
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