Format:
1 online resource (203 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780203480922
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.
Content:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 action is -- 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 -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415309066
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415309066
Language:
English
