UID:
almahu_9949068795202882
Format:
1 online resource (203 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-39252-4
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1-134-39253-2
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1-280-04707-0
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9786610047079
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0-203-48092-9
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-34077-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-30906-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203480922
