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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.
Temas:
Myth > Social aspects > History.
Civilization, Modern > Philosophy.
Mythe > Aspect social > Histoire.
Folklore, myths & legends.
History of Western philosophy.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Civilization, Modern > Philosophy
Myth
Philosophy
Symbolism
Mythen.
Symbolen.
Physical, science, richard, dawkins, social, contract, jane, goodall, wild, boar
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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